Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . ft J Jfe Fig. 2(: Fiz. 2fiS. was the first to point out that such ulcerations were in part owing to anincreased growth of the cells ; and Redferu, whilst he has confirmed thisstatement, has described and figured all the various changes observablein those cells, and in the inter-hyaline substance in the different, diseasesof cartilage in man, and many of the lower animals. In consequence of. Fig. 269. his researches it is now ascertained that the cartilage cells enlarge, and, Fig. 267. Diseased human articular cartilage, from a scro


Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . ft J Jfe Fig. 2(: Fiz. 2fiS. was the first to point out that such ulcerations were in part owing to anincreased growth of the cells ; and Redferu, whilst he has confirmed thisstatement, has described and figured all the various changes observablein those cells, and in the inter-hyaline substance in the different, diseasesof cartilage in man, and many of the lower animals. In consequence of. Fig. 269. his researches it is now ascertained that the cartilage cells enlarge, and, Fig. 267. Diseased human articular cartilage, from a scrofulous joint, showing theenlargement of the corpuscles, the increase of nuclei within them, and their escapeinto the intercorpuscular softened substance.—(Redfern.) Fig. 268. Similar alteration in costal cartilage of the dog, caused by the passageof a seton thirty-four days before death.—(Redfern.) Fig. 269. Vertical section through diseased articular cartilage of the patella; a,free surface.—{Redfern.) 224 PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINE. as Gooclsir pointed out, there are gradually formed within them a mass ofsecondary ones. These burst into the surrounding hyaline substance,give it unusual softness, and cause it to swell. At the same time the


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