178 MEDULLARY CANCER. 



in the shape of detached masses, or as an infiltration 

 in the liver structure. In size the medullary cani-cr 

 varies from that of a millet or hemp-seed a hon. 

 pathic globule, to an apple, a cricket-ball, to a child's 

 head. In most instances morbid growths of various 

 sizes are found in the same individual. In number 

 they vary, sometimes there may be only one, sonic- 

 times a few, at other times very Numerous ; at other 

 times we meet with one as large as a man's fist, sur- 

 rounded by several small ones. The greater the nu: 

 of those occupvin-.; the circumference of the organ, the 

 more numerous will he the protuberances on the 



.ice; and when the morbid growth* are num. 

 and large, two or more, often coalesce. 



In consistence we find t\vo varieties, whieh 

 pathologist* have been :ure 



They do not, however, constitute any essential distinc- 

 tion, but ure merely tlitierent degrees of development 

 of the same nun-bid growth. In the first stage the 

 cancer is of the consistence <f bacon (the lard. 



ichs , and presents on section a smooth, h< 

 Aeneous, shining of :i dull white colour, and 



without a trace of blood-vessels. On mall 



quantity of a thick creamy lluid . from the 



meshes of a dense fibrous sti 



from the adjoining hcpa 1 m with considerable 



ditliculty. and has but a very taint cellular investment, 

 ely perceptible to the naked eye. 



J. Kr< LI-HALOID CANCER. The second variety i 

 sents all the characters of the true eucephaloid brain - 

 like) disease ; its usual colour is milk-whi- h m- 



ever, at times, more or less vascular, and c< 



