142 HEPWORTH, ON COMPOUND NUCLEATED CELLS. 



There are some objects that we occasionally meet with 

 which have some resemblance to nucleated (cancer) cells, at 

 first sight, but on closer examination they are found other- 

 wise ; for instance, in the deposits after desquamatory inflam- 

 mation of the tubuli uriniferi, the epithelial scales, when 

 clustered together, and heaped one upon another, have some- 

 what that appearance (fig. 1, PL IX). There are other com- 

 pound cells, which have not the least resemblance to the so- 

 called cancer-cell, as fig. 2, which represents cells found in 

 the fluid drawn from a sac in ovarian dropsy, in which there 

 were abundance of pus globules ; indeed these appear to have 

 formed the nuclei of the compound cells. The other draw- 

 ings represent cancer-cells, from different sources. (Fig. 3.) 

 Cells from a cancroid tumour of the brain. (Fig. 4.) Cells 

 from epithelial cancer of the fore-arm, of a fine old woman 

 of eighty-three years of age ; now under treatment ; the 

 axillary glands have become aff'ected with the disease, which 

 is progressing rapidly. (Fig. 5.) Cells from the mamma. 

 (Fig. 6.) Cells from the uterus. 



Dr. Inman's case, of Liverpool, is an excellent illustration 

 of the " Practical use of the Microscope." If other gentle- 

 men would publish the results of similar observations, it 

 would lead to useful investigations by many."^ 



* ' Quart. Jouru. Micr. Science,' vol. v, p. 20. 



