TUMOURS AND CANCERS. 237 
fibrous tissue. On section it has a pale yellow colour, 
and is elastic to the touch. When portions of the tumour 
were hardened, and thin sections prepared for the micro- 
scope, it was found to be made up of a multitude of 
closely-packed round cells, with here and there slender 
fibrillee of delicate tissue passing between them ; occa- 
sionally a giant-cell, with many nuclei, was seen. The 
Fic, 120.—The head of a Fowl, with a sarcoma growing in 
the subcutaneous tissue. 
general appearance of the tumour may be inferred from 
the drawing in fig. 120. In this case the sarcoma grew 
in the subcutaneous tissue, and was of small size; but 
such tumours may grow in any situation of the body, 
sometimes in bones, where they attain a very large size ; 
in the brain, eye, intestine, limbs, &c. I have examined 
