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HISTOLOGY OF ANIMALS. 
The leg of a young woman having a tumour also 
of this character, twenty inches in circumference, was 
lately removed by Mr. Lloyd at St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital. If these tumours are carefully examined, they 
will be found to be composed of a tissue resembling 
either cartilage or fibro-cartilage. The tumour, re- 
moved by Hunter, already alluded to, consists of a 
series of large oval or spherical nucleated cells, imbedded 
in a firm intercellular substance, which is in some parts 
structureless, in others more or less fibrous ; the cells, 
Fig. 1*23, contain nuclei which are very granular, and 
of a brown colour. 
fig. 123 . 
FIG. 124 . 
Fig. 124 represents the structure of an enchondro- 
matous tumour, removed after death from the rib of 
a man; it more nearly resembles fibro-cartilage than 
true cartilage, many cells occurring among a dense 
mass of fibres. In an Enchondroma from the cheek, 
as shown by B, in Fig. 125, some of the cells have 
