We have seen that different productions belonging, by their nature, to
the osseous or cartilaginous systems, are sometimes preternaturally
developed in certain parts. Morbid anatomy also shows us productions,
in which the fibrous appearance is very evident. I have many times
made this observation in tumours of the womb, the fallopian tubes,
&c. Instead of the lardy matter which is so common in these organic
affections, we see one or several masses of fibres, very distinct,
yellow, &c. I cannot however say that these excrescences belong
essentially, by the substances that compose them, to the fibrous
system, not having made upon them, experiments similar to those which I
have made upon the organs of this system.