Spontaneous Amputation of the Forearm

Abstract

THE BRITISH MEDICAL .7OURNAL. 567 posed. Tubercle occurs in little rounded masses, whose size rarely exceeds that of a hempseed, and each of these masses has been formed, as it were, from several separate centres; so that we see (in transverse sections through a granulation) what appears to be a section through a small tumour whose elements are more or less concentrically arranged around several centres. This concentric arrangement of elements is frequently absent altogether in cases of fibroid substitution, and is never by any means so marked as in the grey granulation. Where fibroid substitution is commencing in an organ, the new tissue, often starting from the walls of a blood-vessel, proceeds continuously in different directions, and has no tendency to produce rounded masses only, similar to those of tubercle. It often advances rather in the form of bands, and in pro