small, very numerous, and when recent were semi-transparent
and shining.—Professor Benson.
A. c. 414. Section of omentum from the same case as 411.
It is thick, solid, and tubereulated.—Dr. Houston.
A. c. 415. Piece of omentum, in which a pin is seen to be
fixed. It was found so after death.—J. SheHeton, Esq.
*A. c. 416. A piece of peritoneum, showing effusion of
lymph on its surface, the result of acute peritonitis.
*A. c. 417. Portion of peritoneum lining the muscles of the
abdomen of a child, thickened by deposits of lymph and tu
berculous matter.
*A. c. 418. Coils of small intestine cemented together and
covered over by lymph, the consequence of chronic peritonitis.
*A. c. 41.9. A specimen of tuberculous inflammation of.the
mesentery of a child. The membrane is thickened and opaque,
and interspersed with numerous small tubercles.
*A. c. 420. A piece of omentum covered with tubercles and
tuberculous infiltration, of all shapes and sizes. The parts of
the peritoneum intermediate between the diseased patches
appear transparent and healthy.
#A. c. 421. A patch of omentum with a large, firm, circular
schirrous mass in its texture. The tumor is insulated, about
two inches in diameter, and thinned off uniformly to the circumference.
*A. c. 422. A piece of omentum containing several firm, circumscribed
tumors. A section which has been made of one
of them shows its structure. The omentum is otherwise sound.
A. c. 450. Peritoneum of a monkey studded with tubercles.
A. c. 451. Omentum of an axis deer, with numerous pendent
cysts, containing hydatids (cysticercus tenuicollis) and several
solid tumors, the result most probably of the degeneration of
the latter. (See Dublin Medical Journal, vol.viii).—Dr.Houston.
A. c. 452. Fibrous cyst of one of the same hydatids, unopened.
A. c. 453. A perfect hydatid, detached.
A. c. 454. Another, detached from its cyst, leech-shaped.
A. c. 455. Cyst of a hydatid, thickened by disease.
A. c. 456. Cyst of a hydatid, filled with lymph.
A. c. 457. Hydatid, removed from a diseased cyst, itself
diseased.
A. c. 458. Hydatid, removed from a diseased cyst, still
further diseased. It is thickened, shrivelled, and opaque.
A. c. 459. Omentum of an axis-deer, studded over with
nodules of bone, which run in lines parallel to the course of
the vessels.
A. c. 460. Cyst, containing a hydatid at the upper part of
the testicle of a deer.
A. Cm 461. Hydatids from the omentum of a cashmere goat.
A. c. 462. Hydatids from the omentum of a moose deer.
A. c. 463. Cysts filled with softened tubercular matter, from
the mesentery of a deer.—Dr. Houston.
A. c. 480. Oblique inguinal hernia, complicated with hydrocele
of the tunica vaginalis testis. The hernial sac is much
thickened; the fibres of the cremaster are seen to be distinct
and large; and the inter-columnar fascia, which is turned off
from the cremaster, is shown to be continuous with the external
oblique tendon.
A. c. 481. Small inguinal hernia, with a large hydrocele.
A slight constriction marks the point at which the sacs meet.
The cremaster is greatly hypertrophied.
A. c. 482. Inguinal hernia; the sac is shown in connection
with the chord.—Dr. Ryan.
A. c. 483. Hernial sac, exhibiting the arches formed by the
fibres of the cremaster muscle.
A. c. 484. Hernial sac, showing the disposition of the cremaster
on its surface.—Pro/ess^ Kirby.
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