566 Diseases of Connective Tissue, 



This is most probably the cast from the patient from 

 whom the previous two specimens were obtained. It must 

 liave been taken not long before his death, and after the 

 tumour had recurred for the fifth and last time. A cause of 

 uncertainty, however, is that this tumour is on the right side, 

 whereas the previous specimens were described originally as 

 having been above the left haunch. Possibly, however, the 

 tumour in its recurrence had attacked chiefly the right side, or 

 there may have been a misprint. G. C. 3502. 



9. 64. Recurrent Fibroid Tumour, which became dissem- 

 inated. — Papier-mache cast of a tumour in the groin before 

 its removal for the third time from the same place. 



Mrs B. , aged 55, received a blow above the right knee. Five months 

 afterwards (June 1879) a tumour of the size of an orange was removed 

 from the injured place ; another tumour was removed from the same 

 place in June 1881 ; another in January 1883 ; and a fourth in May 1883. 

 There was no return above the knee, but from the groin a similar tumour 

 was removed in June 1883, a second from the groin was removed in 

 November 1883, and a third (of which this is a cast) in June 1884. 

 While the wound from the last (seventh) operation was healing, numerous 

 nodules appeared in the subcutaneous tissue at various parts of the body, 

 and some could be felt within the abdomen. The patient died shortly 

 afterwards, and at the 2'ost-mortem examination nodules of sarcoma 

 were found in the liver, lungs, and heart, and in many parts of the 

 subcutaneous tissue. 



G. C. 2738. 

 Fresentcd lij Charles W. Cathcart, F.R.C.S.E., 1891. 



9. 65. Cicatrix after Removal of a Recurrent Tumour.— 



Cast in gelatine and glycerine of the outer side of the left 

 knee of the patient Mrs B., mentioned above, showing the 

 sound scar at the place from whence the first four tumours 

 were removed. G. C. 2874. 



Presented by Charles W. Cathcart, F.E.C.S.E., 1891. 



