Hypertroijhy. 5 



of a child, with patella and part of diseased synovial membrane. 

 When the joint was excised, the hairs on the surface were 

 three or four times larger than those of the corresponding part 

 on the opposite side. G. C. 3367. 



Presented by k. G. Millek, F.R.C.S.E., 1892. 



1. 12. Hypertrophy of Bone due to Mechanical Irritation. 



— Bones of the fore-limb of a fox, in which a wire loop has 

 been embedded by the formation of new bone round it. 



The specimen was obtained from the leg of an adult fox, which 

 had been recently killed. 



' ' The skin was perfectly liealed up, and there was no mark exter- 

 nally, except a narrow line of yellow hair round the black part of the paw, 

 showing Avhere the skin had been cut by the wire. It is evident that the 

 animal had got his foot entangled in a snare set for rabbits, that he had 

 first drawn it so tight as to cut through the flesh to the bone, and then 

 had succeeded in breaking the wire " (letter from donor). 



From the comparative smoothness of the new bone, the 

 condition must have been one of long standing. No doubt 

 at first there must have been much inflammation, and that 

 probably septic. G. C. 2400 



Presented by T. Macpheksox Grant, Esq., 1854. 



FROM ALTERED NUTRITIVE CONDITIONS. 



1. 13. Hypertrophy of Subcutaneous Fat on Anterior 

 Abdominal Wall. — Section of the anterior abdominal wall 

 of an elderly woman, near the linea alba. 



The specimen shows a very large hypertrophy of subcu- 

 taneous fat, and slightly, also, of subperitoneal fat, while the skin 

 and fascial structures remain quite thin. G. C. 3077. 



Presented by Chakles W. Cathcart, F.R.C.S.E., 1889. 



FROM UNKNOWN CAUSES. 



1. 14. Congenital Hypertrophy of Finger.— Cast in glycerine 



