Elements of pathological anatomy . g much broader than theattached. These singular excres-cences are most abundant in therectum and the sigmoid flexure ofthe colon, from which they gra-dually decrease in number, thoughnot in volume, as they approachthe coecum, where they are entire-ly wanting. Their surface is some-what rough, as if covered with vil-li, and in the recent state they were all of a dark mulberry hue. The parietes of the bowel are very much thick-ened and indurated, especially in the inferior three-fourths of its extent; andthe caliber of the tube is diminished to less than one-ha
Elements of pathological anatomy . g much broader than theattached. These singular excres-cences are most abundant in therectum and the sigmoid flexure ofthe colon, from which they gra-dually decrease in number, thoughnot in volume, as they approachthe coecum, where they are entire-ly wanting. Their surface is some-what rough, as if covered with vil-li, and in the recent state they were all of a dark mulberry hue. The parietes of the bowel are very much thick-ened and indurated, especially in the inferior three-fourths of its extent; andthe caliber of the tube is diminished to less than one-half the normal size, andof the rectum to less than one-third. The subject of this disease was a manabout sixty years of age, during the last four of which he was constantly ha-rassed with diarrhoea and intestinal pains, which produced excessive emacia-tion and gradual exhaustion. In another specimen of a similar nature, which was kindly presented to meby the late Dr. Herron, of Cincinnati — a gentleman who died too soon for the78. 618 l. \ RG E BOW I cause of the science to which he was .so ardentlj attached, and of winch he bidfair to be one of the brightest ornaments — the walls of the colon are also ver)much thickened, though not so much as in the preceding case, and the inneisurface, besides being cellulated, like a honey-comb, is covered with an im-mense number of soft, fungoid excrescences, some of which arc nearK half aninch in length. In their shape they exhibit almost every variety, some beingconical, some spherical, and some angular. Many of them arise h\ a commonbase, and, jutting out like little slender arches, unite, at the top, leaving thus-a number of intervening spaces which readily admit of the passage of a largesized probe. The structure of these vegetations seems to be \cr\ analogous to, if notidentical with, that of the natural mucous membrane, upon which they grow, andof which they may, therefore, be regarded merely as so many prolongations. That this is
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