Reproduction
Object numberRCSHC/P 243
Scientific nameHomo sapiens
CollectionHunterian
CategoryWet preparations
Object nameliver, echinococcosis, Cases of Hydatids, Mounted wet tissue
DescriptionA sterile hydatid cyst from the liver which was discharged through the lung.
This patient suffered from a severe and long-term echinococcosis infection, with this preparation representing one of roughly 135 hydatids discharged via the lungs in the course of four months.
Production date 1771 - 1772
Preparator
Owner/user
Surgeon/clinician
Surgeon/clinician
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: 82 mm
whole diameter: 42 mm
whole weight: 154 g
whole diameter: 42 mm
whole weight: 154 g
Bibliography
SourceProger 1966-1972
Vol. 1, pages 159-60.
NotesText taken from Stanley & Paget (1846-9), and Paget (1882-5).
TranscriptAn acephalocyst hydatid from a liver: it was discharged through the lung.
The following is most probably the history of the case. It is recorded in a letter from Dr. John Collet, M.D., to Dr. Baker: (Also in Dobson 1971).
Sept. 1771. "The patient was a lady, thirty-seven years old. About four years before the discharge of hydatids commenced her health began to decline; she had oppressions of the breath, slight oedema of the ankles, [and a] cough. Aftyer these symptoms, in the course of four months she coughed up 135 hydatids, all ruptured, some tinged with blood. At the time of the publication of her history she appears to be recovering."
The relation of the case is followed by some general remarks on hydatids, several of which remarks, Dr Baker says, he owed "to the favour of Mr John Hunter."
Medical Transactions, College of Physicians. London, 1772. Vol. ii, pp. 486 and 535.
SourceClift 1830 Part 1
NotesCatalogue number 559
TranscriptA hydatid from the liver, coughed up through the lungs.
SourceClift 1830-1831
TranscriptHydatid from the Liver, coughed up by the Lungs.
SourceCollet 1772
Pages 486-498.
NotesA letter from Dr Collet to Dr Baker describing the case of Mrs Davies who coughed up a large number of hydatids through the lungs from their situation in the liver.
