Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology; twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author.

  • Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902.
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MDCCCLX. [1860]
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Credit: Cellular pathology : as based upon physiological and pathological histology; twenty lectures delivered in the Pathological Institute of Berlin during the months of February, March, and April, 1858 / by Rudolf Virchow; translated from the second edition of the original by Frank Chance; with notes and numerous emendations, principally from ms. notes of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    colloid, or as Johannes Muller has called it, Collonema, turns out to be merely oedeniatous connective tissue. We find nothing more than a very soft tissue, soaked in an albuminous fluid. Such a tumour cannot be separated from connective-tissue [fibrous] tumours generally, whether they be denominated gelatinous, oedematous, or sclerenia- tous^ connective-tissue tumours, and I think there is no occasion to estrange it from the mind by bestowing upon it the name of collonenia. So, again, we find certain forms of cancer, in which the stroma, instead of being composed simply of connective tissue, consists of the same mucous tissue which we meet with in a simple mucous tumoirr. These we may simply name Mucous Cancer (Gelatinous or Colloid Cancer). We then know exactly what we have before us. We know it is a cancer, but that its stroma differs in its containing mucus and in its gelatinous nature from the ordinary stroma of cancers. To revert once more to the consideration of tubercle— it would certainly be something completely abnormal if it were composed of corpuscules tuherculeux; but if you com- pare the cells which are, as at least I must assume to be the case, the real constituents of the granule, with normal tissues of the body, you will remark the most com- plete correspondence between them and the corpuscles of the li/mphaHc glands, and this is a correspondence which is neither accidental nor unimportant, for was it not known even of old, that lymphatic glands have an especial tendency to undergo the cheesy degeneration! Even the old writers have stated that a lymphatic constitution disposes to pro- cesses of this kind. With regard to pus, I need only remind you that we have been occupied during several lectures in discussing the Cjuestion of the possibility of diagnosing between pymmia and leucocytosis, and that we have recognized in the ’ Sclcrcina — oedema durum. 31