Elements of pathological anatomy . rom the imperfect descriptionsof it by authors. In its shape it is always, so far at least as reiterated inspectionhas enabled me to judge, more or less conical, pyriform, or gourd-like, never, I believe, perfectly globular. Occasionally,though this is rare, it is somewhat lobulated orangular, either externally or upon the innersurface, or in both these situations at the sametime. Its size and weight vary very much inindividual cases. In five specimens of this spe-cies of mole which I examined with great carealong with Professor Parker, the mean weightwas fou
Elements of pathological anatomy . rom the imperfect descriptionsof it by authors. In its shape it is always, so far at least as reiterated inspectionhas enabled me to judge, more or less conical, pyriform, or gourd-like, never, I believe, perfectly globular. Occasionally,though this is rare, it is somewhat lobulated orangular, either externally or upon the innersurface, or in both these situations at the sametime. Its size and weight vary very much inindividual cases. In five specimens of this spe-cies of mole which I examined with great carealong with Professor Parker, the mean weightwas found to be a little more than one ounce,the maximum two ounces, the minimum sixdrachms. The length in the same cases variedfrom two inches and a half to three inches anda quarter ; the width, from one inch and a halfto two inches and a quarter ; and the thick-ness, from one inch and a half to two are told by some writers, amongst othersby Unezwolf, a German physician, of fibrinousmoles that weighed nine pounds, and were as. MiIp with the cavity communicating externally. FIBRINOUS MOLE. 781 large nearly as an adult head; but such examples must be exceedingly rare,and I have never met with them. The fibrinous mole, in the recent .state, has very much the appearance of amass of blood, being of a modena color, not uniformly, but darker in someplaces than in others. It is of a firm, solid consistence, requires a good dealof force to cut it, and emits a dull, creaking sound under the knife, like fibro-cartilage. The degree of induration, however, is not the same in all cases, oreven in all parts of the same specimen. When retained long, this species ofmole sometimes partially degenerates into a hard, gristly substance, similar tocertain transformations of the placenta. Externally, the adventitious product is invested by a greyish, fragile lamella,generally not more than the fourth of a line in thickness. It evidently servesto connect the mole to the inner surface of the uteru
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