Lectures on the theory and practice of surgery / by the late Abraham Colles ... ; edited by Simon M'Coy.

  • Abraham Colles
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1844-1845
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Credit: Lectures on the theory and practice of surgery / by the late Abraham Colles ... ; edited by Simon M'Coy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the extent of the disease was pretty accurately demar-1 cated above by the horizontal ramus of the jaw, and below by the clavicle.] In this case the man got a swelling in his neck; a puncture was made in it, and shortly after the patient died as if he was choking. I saw an army surgeon who had the same description of disease, and he died from haemorrhage that took place two or three times from it. Sometimes the side of the nose swells, as in this drawing. [The side of the nose had a swollen and dark-red appear- ance, with a number of veins runuing in different directions.] But I cannot consider either of these as cancer or fungus haematodes. The eye is sometimes affected with fungus haematodes, the first appearance being seen through the pupil at the bottom of the eye, as a greenish spot with a metallic lustre. This, which is soon discovered to be a morbid growth within the ball of the eye, beginning at the bottom of the cavity, gradually advances forward, until it reaches the cornea and destroys it by its pressure : and no longer having any resistance to its progress, it quickly enlarges to a frightful extent, altering or destroying everything in the orbit—nerves, mus- cles, and the adipose substance. The eye has been removed by the knife for this disease, but with as little success as operations for fungus haematodes generally experience ; yet if the disease be recognised very early, the patient ought to get the only chance left him. In the majority of such cases, particularly if it has existed for any lime, the brain will be found extensively diseased. Fungus haematodes sometimes attacks the testicle ; indeed, as far as my experience goes, it is a much more common disease of that gland than scirrhus, which is not very often met with in it; and when
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