Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . most every nerve of the body pre-sented knotty swellings. In someplaces these were developed into tu-mors, which varied in size from apea to that of the human head.* Asubcutaneous tumor, described bythe late Mr. W. Wood, of Edinburgh,must be referred to this class of All these neuromata, on being minutely examined, are found to con-sist of fibrous texture, more or less dense, the. filaments often arrangedin wavy bundles running parallel to each other, but occasionally assum-ing a looped form, or intercrossing with each oth
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . most every nerve of the body pre-sented knotty swellings. In someplaces these were developed into tu-mors, which varied in size from apea to that of the human head.* Asubcutaneous tumor, described bythe late Mr. W. Wood, of Edinburgh,must be referred to this class of All these neuromata, on being minutely examined, are found to con-sist of fibrous texture, more or less dense, the. filaments often arrangedin wavy bundles running parallel to each other, but occasionally assum-ing a looped form, or intercrossing with each other, as in Fig. 186. Ihave also found them to contain groups of cells, so that, on the additionof acetic acid, they closely resemble the structure represented Fig. unfrequently they are fibro-cartilaginous, sometimes with the cellsclosely aggregated together, at others widely scattered (Fig. 190). Insome of the neuromatous swellings described by Dr. Smith, of Dublin,* *See Smiths Treatise on Neuroma ; Dublin, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, Fig. 189. Section of neuroma connected with three nervous trunks.—Naturalsize.—(Smith.) 196 PRINCIPLES OP MEDICINE. I found the fibrous tissue to present wavy bundles, among which a few
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