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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 

 fibrillse of delicate tissue passing between them ; occa- 

 sionally a giant-cell, with many nuclei, was seen. The 



FIG. 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 



