Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital.

Date:
1847-59
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ADIPOSE AND FIBROUS TISSUES. injected. In this preparation the areolar spaces formed by the anastomoses of the capillaries will be seen to be smaller than in the same structure in the adult animal, and hence this tissue is much more vascular in the former than in the latter. 15. Lobules of adipose vesicles from the omentum of a Kitten, three days old. 16. Three sections of the skin, and subcutaneous cellular membrane of a finger injected, showing the vascularity of the fat vesicles, and some sudoriferous glands. 17. Adipose vesicles from a Frog injected. 18. Adipose vesicles from the abdomen of an Eel, injected. Here the individual fat cells are seen to be large and spherical, and each surrounded by a circle of capillaries. 19. Adipose membrane from a Frog. 20. Tendon of a Rabbit, two days old, injected, showing two sets of vessels ; one in the form of a rich plexus upon its surface, the other consisting of vessels running longitudinally between the fasciculi of tendinous fibres. 21. Tendon of the same muscle of the opposite side, from the same Rabbit, dried and preserved in balsam. By this mode of preparation, much of the tissue between the vessels is dried up and rendered transparent, causing several planes of vessels to be brought upon the same level, and thus the part is made to present a much greater degree of vascularity than in its natural state it really possesses. 22. Tendon of a flexor digitorum, injected, from an adult, show- ing a much less degree of vascularity than in the young subject. The vessels on the surface are seen to be com- paratively few and large, forming terminal loopings towards the edge of the tendon; scarcely any longitudinal vessels exist in the substance of the tendon. B 2