A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . e no trace of them. In the other variety of colloid, the heteroclite matter occurs in the form of adistinct tumor, from the volume of a marble to that of an adult head, of a globular,rounded, or irregular shape, and of a firm, dense consistence. In the peritonealcavity, I have seen, on two occasions, enormous tumors of this kind, one of whichwas supposed, by estimate, to weigh not less than twenty-five pounds. It ex-tended from the pelvis to the diaphragm, surrounded the colon and part of thestomach, and almost comple
A system of surgery : pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative . e no trace of them. In the other variety of colloid, the heteroclite matter occurs in the form of adistinct tumor, from the volume of a marble to that of an adult head, of a globular,rounded, or irregular shape, and of a firm, dense consistence. In the peritonealcavity, I have seen, on two occasions, enormous tumors of this kind, one of whichwas supposed, by estimate, to weigh not less than twenty-five pounds. It ex-tended from the pelvis to the diaphragm, surrounded the colon and part of thestomach, and almost completely concealed the abdominal vistera ; its length beingnearly one foot, its breadth upwards of eight inches, and its thickness from twoand a half to three inches. The patient, aged forty-nine, had been laboring underthe disease for four years. In the other case, that of a gentleman of forty, thetumor occupied the same situation, and was also of extraordinary extent. Whenthe disease was first noticed, eight months before he died, the morbid mass was CHAP. vir. COLLOID. 251.
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