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LECTURE XII. 



appertaining to the nerves will, as a matter of course, be 

 larger than those belonging to the vessels. But every 

 vessel territory (papilla) also which is marked out by a 

 single capillary loop is divided into a series of smaller 

 (cell-) territories, all of which certainly lie along the 

 banks of the same vessel, but still have an independent 

 existence, each of them being provided with a special cel- 

 lular element. 



In this manner it is very easy to explain how within a 

 papilla a single (cell-) territory may become diseased. 

 Suppose, for example, that such a territory swells up, in- 

 creases in size, and continually keeps shooting farther 

 and farther upwards, then arborescent ramifications may 



FIG. 84. 



arise (accuminate [spitzes] condyloma*) without the 

 whole papilla's being affected in a like manner. The 



Fig. 84. The fundamental substance (connective tissue) of an acuminate condy- 

 loma of the penis with freely budding and branching papillae, after the epidermis 

 and the rete mucosum have been completely detached. 12 diameters. 



* The Germans speak of condylomata lata and acuminata. The condyloma latum 

 is invariably of syphilitic origin, and is identical with the plaque muqueu&e of the 

 French, who never use the term condylome in this sense. Condyloma acuminatum, on 

 the contrary (by the French termed simply condylome), is not syphilitic in its nature, 

 but frequently occurs in gonorrhoea, though it is also met with independently of this 

 disease. From a MS. Note by the Author. 



