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Proceedings | Pathological Society of Philadelphia (1871)
Proceedings Pathological Society of Philadelphia - 1871 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: section shows at its central posterior portion a yellowish white nodule, ovoid in shape, 5" in its long diameter. Above this the secreting structure of the gland... more » has undergone atrophy, and the mediastinum and the septula setting off from it are, on close inspection, to be distinguished from the dense whitish mass which has usurped the place of the proper gland tissue. Below the above-mentioned nodule the gland structure still exists; the septula, however, are thicker and more developed than usual. A section near the edge of the ovoid nodule, when placed beneath the microscope, shows a luxuriant growth of the cells of the connective tissue, with multiplication of their nuclei, and, as we advance towards the centre of the mass, these cells become enlarged and crowded with fat globules, although still retaining a definite cellular form ; further on, however, breaking down into a mass of granular debris. In view of these facts—the tough consistence, yellowish appearance and seat of the nodule, the disease involving only the testicle proper and not the epididymis ; the thickening of the tunica albuginea, and the fibrous adhesions from repeated attacks of inflammation of the tunica vaginalis, together with the microscopic appearances which are so characteristically those of a gummy tumour—the committee has no hesitation in pronouncing the growth a typical case of syphilitic gumma of the testicle. Cirrhosis and Complete Atrophy of Vesicular Structure of the Left Lung; Cheesy Deposit, with Miliary, Tubercle throughout the Right Lung.—Dr. Tyson presented the specimens, and read the following history :— John L., set. about 26, a paid nurse in the men's medical ward of the Philadelphia Hospital, was said for several years to have had a left phthisis, and had cough for six years. He ...« less