Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 245. -they are congenital Fig. 244. cavity, prevent influx of fluid, and cause spontaneous cure—a resultwhich is observable in the figure of a very rare specimen of aneurismof the left coronary artery described by Dr. Pea-cock.* The special pathology of these growths,however, is far too extensive a subject to beentered upon in this place. 2. Erectile growths are generally soft; for themost part situated in the subcutaneous tissue, theskin covering them being of unusual compressed they may be gradually emptiedof b
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 245. -they are congenital Fig. 244. cavity, prevent influx of fluid, and cause spontaneous cure—a resultwhich is observable in the figure of a very rare specimen of aneurismof the left coronary artery described by Dr. Pea-cock.* The special pathology of these growths,however, is far too extensive a subject to beentered upon in this place. 2. Erectile growths are generally soft; for themost part situated in the subcutaneous tissue, theskin covering them being of unusual compressed they may be gradually emptiedof blood, which returns like water into a spongeon removing the pressure. For the most paitWhen the arteries are numerous in them theyhave a brownish or reddish color, and pulsate during life. When theveins abound, they are of a blue or purple color. Their texture con-sists of numerous capillaries, more or less distended, mixed with arteriesand veins, the interstices of which are filled up by areolar tissue. Asection presents a spongy texture, composed of fibr
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