534 GENERAL ANATOMY. 



present distinct fibres. The masses vary from the size of a 

 grain of millet to that of a cherry stone. They exist some- 

 times in an innumerable quantity. The largest appear squam- 

 ous. 



This tissue softens under the form of greenish brown pu- 

 trescence; its effects, whether local or general, are slightly 

 marked. It exists frequently and very abundantly in the 

 liver, which is then shrivelled, wrinkled, and rugose. It has 

 been seen also in the kidney, the prostate, the epedidymis, 

 the ovarium, and thyroid. 



842. Laennec has designated, under the name of scferose, 

 a tissue very much resembling or identical with the white 

 compact tissue, and which he found infiltrated in the subperi- 

 toneal cellular tissue of the lumbar region in a cancerous in- 

 dividual. It differs from the morbid tissues in that it has not 

 been osberved softened; but it approximates to them by its pro- 

 pensity to spread. 



843. The saftne pathologist has designated, under the name 

 of squirre squammeux, a tissue of a semi-transparent, dull, 

 white, foliated like the flesh of a cod, which he once saw en- 

 closed in a pearly cyst, in a cancerous individual. 



VI. OF COMPOUND MORBID TISSUES. 



844. The morbid tissues are very often associated: their 

 reunion is one of the greatest sources of difficulty in the study 

 of pathological anatomy. 



The composition takes place sometimes by simple juxta-po- 

 sition, and sometimes by an intimate and mutual penetration. 



The most ordinary combinations are, 1st, those of the fibro- 

 cartilaginous and osseous tissues in the cysts which contain 

 vesicular worms ; 



2d. The combination of earthy ossification and of the tuber- 

 cle, especially in the bronchial glands; 



3d. That of the tubercle and encephaloid tissue, frequent 

 in the liver and testicles; 



4th. That of schirrus and earthy ossification, common also 

 in the liver; 



5th. That of all the morbid tissues, with ossifications, with 



