Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the breast and its lymphatic glands / by Charles Creighton. With illustrations.

  • Creighton, Charles, 1847-1927.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the breast and its lymphatic glands / by Charles Creighton. With illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LEEDS <kWE$7-RIDINC MEDIC0-CHIRURC1CAL SOCIETY CONTENTS. TAGE Introduction . * PART I.—PHYSIOLOGICAL. CHAPTER I. THE PERIODICAL INVOLUTION OP THE BREAST. Structure of the Breast in the Lactation Period—Involuted or Resting State—Intermediate Stages of the Upfolding Process—The Secretory Changes in the Epithelium, as exhibited during the Subsidence of the Function—The Secretion, a Collateral Product of Endogenous Cell-Formation—Cellular Waste Products of the Secretion—Pig- mented Waste Cells—Successive Renewals of the Epithelium through- out the Subsidence of the Function, as well as in the Lactation Period—All the Waste Cells theoretically considered to be Products of Endogenous Cell-Formation—Cellular Waste Products unavoid- able in a Subsiding Secretion 9 CHAPTER II. THE PERIODICAL EVOLUTION OP THE BREAST. Relation of the Periodical Unfolding to Pregnancy—Material of the In- vestigation—First Stage of Evolution—Second Stage of Evolution— Third Stage of Evolution—-Unfolding of the Structure correlated with Increasing Intensity of the Function; Dualism of Structure and Function—Various kinds of Waste Products corresponding to Stages of Evolution—Parallelism with the Process of Involution . 38 CHAPTER III. THE LYMPHATIC' GLANDS OP THE BREAST IN CONNEXION WITH THE DISPOSAL OP ITS CELLULAR WASTE. Summary of the Waste Products, of the Waxing and Waning Secretion— Lymphatic Glands of the Breast as Receptacles for the Waste Cells —Summary of Opinions on the Structure and Function of Lym-