Reproduction
Object numberRCSHC/P 133
Scientific nameHomo sapiens
CollectionHunterian
CategoryWet preparations
Object nameSkin, Cicatrix, Healing by Scar Formation, Mounted wet tissue
DescriptionA portion of skin showing the healing tissue (cicatrix) and new skin of a circular ulcer.
A layer of skin has been removed to show the smooth cicatrix and new cuticle underneath. Neither have hair-follicles, or show the natural depressed patterning of the upper layer of skin.
Production date 1760 - 1793
Preparator
Owner/user
presented
Physical Location
LocationOn display in the Hunterian Museum, Room 4: The Long Gallery
Physical Information
Physical descriptionWet preparation of tissue mounted in a circular glass jar with glass lid.
Materialglass (material)
Dimensions
whole height: 92 mm
whole diameter: 59 mm
whole weight: 302 g
whole diameter: 59 mm
whole weight: 302 g
Bibliography
SourceProger 1966-1972
Vol. 1, pages 67-8.
NotesText taken from Stanley & Paget (1846-9), and Paget (1882-5).
TranscriptA portion of integument with a similar circular cicatrix. Part of the cuticle is reflected, showing the smoothness of the surface of the cicatrix and of the new cuticle. The new skin presents no appearance of wrinkles or of the natural network of depressed lines; it contains no hair-follicles; and the hair-follicles at the margins of the cicatrix, the cuticular linings of which have been drawn out in other parts of the skin.
SourceHunter 'Works'
Vol. 3, page 503.
NotesAlso in Proger 1966-72.
TranscriptThe new-formed cutis is at first very thin and extremely tender, but afterwards becomes firmer and thicker; it is smooth continued skin, not formed with those insensible indentations which are observed in the natural or original skin, and by which the original admits of any distention [sic.] the cellular membrane will allow of, as is experienced in many deposits, white swellings in the joints, etc. This is proved by steeping a piece of dead skin, with a cicatrix in it, I water, to make the cuticle separates from the cutis; there we find that the new-formed cuticle becomes but little larger by such a process, which plainly shows that the new-formed cutis upon which this cuticle was formed, has a pretty smooth continued surface, and not that soft unequal surface which distinguishes the original cutis.
SourceClift 1830 Part 1
NotesCatalogue number 134
TranscriptA sore cicatrizing: a section.
