Remarks and practical results of observation on scirrhus and cancer / by Antonio Scarpa ; tr. from the Italian, with an appendix containing an account of a sanguineous tumor of the breast, and some annotations on the text, by James Briggs.

  • Scarpa, Antonio, 1752-1832.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Remarks and practical results of observation on scirrhus and cancer / by Antonio Scarpa ; tr. from the Italian, with an appendix containing an account of a sanguineous tumor of the breast, and some annotations on the text, by James Briggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that of the malignant medullary fungus previously seated in some of the external parts of the body. In the third place, scirrhus and cancer never make their appearance before puberty, and seldom before the twenty-fifth year in either sex. The slow spontaneous induration in one or more parts of the breast of female children ; the hard chronic tumefaction of some of the other external conglo- merate glands; the slow spontaneous and nearly in- dolent enlargement of the testes in boys, are invari- ably, and, without exception, of scrophulous origin and character. In the fourth place, observation and experience teach us that cancer is never formed but in con- sequence of legitimate scirrhus affecting some of the external conglomerai^^^e glands, or of rigid in- durated porri w^arts or malignant tubercles of the external or reflected skin partaking of the nature of scirrhus. Under one or other of these two forms the disease may mr.ke its appearance ; and the ulceration which ensues upon it is that which is strictly cancerous ; for an uncJean fungous, spreading sore with hard inverted edges, is a thing widely different from a malignant ulcer formed upon a part which had been previously indurated by genuine scirrhus. Conformably to what we know from observation,