Reproduction
Object numberRCSHC/P 278
Scientific nameHomo sapiens
CollectionHunterian
CategoryWet preparations
Object namePopliteal artery, Popliteal aneurysm, Operation for Popliteal Aneurysm, Mounted wet tissue
DescriptionA section of an aneurysmal sac, taken from the other leg of the patient in the preceding preparation (P277). In this preparation the crural artery is shown to have also started to develop three such sacs.
The internal surfaces of the popliteal and crural arteries are irregularly thickened with contracted and prominent wrinkles and a scattering of fatty deposits. The external coats are hardened and consolidated with the surrounding tissues. The popliteal aneurysm is smaller than its counterpart in P277 but exhibits the same structure.
Production date Estimated 1760 - Estimated 1793
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Related objectsRCSHC/P 277RCSHC/P 276RCSHC/P 275
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: 183 mm
whole diameter: 70 mm
whole weight: 840 g
whole diameter: 70 mm
whole weight: 840 g
Bibliography
SourceProger 1966-1972
Vol. 1, page 190.
NotesText taken from Hunterian MS. Catalogue, Stanley & Paget (1846-9), and Paget (1882-5).
Transcript"An aneurism of the other popliteal artery of the same man, which was felt when alive, but not large enough to be seen. This artery was giving way more on one side than another, which is pushed out into a pouch, but hardly begun to descend. The crural artery, for some way, like the former, having also three aneurismal sacs beginning in it."
There is an almost exact symmetry of the diseased changes in the corresponding parts to these two arteries above the aneurismal sacs. In both alike, and to the same extent, the internal coat is irregularly thickened, and contracted in prominent wrinkles, which intervene between shallow pouches. In both, also, there are scattered thin deposits of fatty matter beneath the inner surface; and in both, while the middle coat appears of ordinary thickness, the external coat is indurated and consolidated with the surrounding tissues. The sac is, in this specimen, much smaller than in the preceding, but it has the same structure, and, like it, is formed by dilation of a short portion of the whole circumference of the artery with a predominant dilation of one half of the circumference.
SourceHome 1793a
NotesThis paper describes Hunter's new method for the treatment of popliteal aneurism.
SourceHome 1800b
NotesThis paper contains some further cases of popliteal aneurism treated by Hunter's method in the late 1790s.
SourceClift 1830 Part 1
NotesCatalogue number 399
TranscriptAn aneurism of the poplitæal artery of the opposite limb of the same man from whom the two preceding preparations were taken. The artery is dilated more on one side than the other, but the sac had not yet begun to descend. The crural artery above the principal sac has three successive smaller dilatations. The aneurism was felt during life, but not seen.
