. The principles of surgery . 1 [We would respectfully suggest that the assertion of Professor Miller in favour ofthe fatty tumour becoming medullary and malignant, should, in the existing state ofour knowledge, be received with some degree of caution; it is certainly, so far as wehave observed, not the opinion entertained by most of the authoritative pathologists ofthe present day. The instance mentioned by Brodie (Clinical Lects., p. 205, Am. ed.),is not at all conclusive. Vidal de Cassis speaks of the transformation as a circumstancewhich seems probable, but which there is no well-authentic
. The principles of surgery . 1 [We would respectfully suggest that the assertion of Professor Miller in favour ofthe fatty tumour becoming medullary and malignant, should, in the existing state ofour knowledge, be received with some degree of caution; it is certainly, so far as wehave observed, not the opinion entertained by most of the authoritative pathologists ofthe present day. The instance mentioned by Brodie (Clinical Lects., p. 205, Am. ed.),is not at all conclusive. Vidal de Cassis speaks of the transformation as a circumstancewhich seems probable, but which there is no well-authenticated fact to establish. (Pa-thologie Externe, p. 448.) Lebert has never met with an example of such degeneration,and does not admit its possibility. (Physiol. Pathol, t. 2, p. 101, and his recent treatise onCancerous Diseases, p. 59.) Professor Walshe says, Lipomata are susceptible of in-flammatory softening (a rare occurrence, however,) leading to breaking down of theirsubstance ; the physical, and probably chemical qualitie
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