. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. story oftumour in the family. The tumour filled up the hollow inthe hard palate, being more attached to the left side, wherethe mucous membrane was continued directly over it, thanon the right, where a probe could be passed between thetumour and the palate. It was about the size of a horse-chestnut, slightly lobed on the surface, elastic, but not fluc-tuating ; the mucous membrane over it was not adherent toit, and was normal in appearance. The tumour movedslightly over the bone.
. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. story oftumour in the family. The tumour filled up the hollow inthe hard palate, being more attached to the left side, wherethe mucous membrane was continued directly over it, thanon the right, where a probe could be passed between thetumour and the palate. It was about the size of a horse-chestnut, slightly lobed on the surface, elastic, but not fluc-tuating ; the mucous membrane over it was not adherent toit, and was normal in appearance. The tumour movedslightly over the bone. There were no enlarged lymphaticglands in the neck. The accompanying woodcut (fig. 127)was made from a plaster cast taken by a dentist. I removed the tumour by making an incision round theleft side of the growtli, which then readily shelled out from 250 TUMOURS OF THE PALATE. a distinct capsule ; the capsule itself was afterwards removedwith the fingers. Bleeding was stopped by the actualcautery. The wound granulated, but left a part of the hardpalate bare. A small portion of this was loose when the Fig. patient left the hospital, and she stated that when she drankIkiid came into the left nostril. The tumour was examined microscopically, and found tobe a small round-celled sarcoma. A very similar tumour, removed by Sir W. Fergusson,is preserved in the Museum of the College of Surgeons(2284), being a round-celled sarcoma, half an inch indiameter, removed from a woman of thirty-live, in whom ithad been growing four years. In the same Museum (2284 A) is a carcinomatous tumour,one inch in diameter, consisting of septa bounding alveoli,which contain collections of epithelial cells, removed by ; and in the Museum of Kings College is a specimenof the kind, in wliich the greater part of the right side of thehard palate is involved in a soft tumour, the surface of whichis \evy ii regular and broken d(nvn, vvliilst the soft palate TUMOURS OF THE PALATE. 251 appears to be
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