The classification, pathology, & general treatment of morbid growths / by John Hughes Bennett.

  • John Hughes Bennett
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[between 1857 and 1870?]
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Credit: The classification, pathology, & general treatment of morbid growths / by John Hughes Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    form of numerous distinct nodules throughout the lung.* A somewhat similar case is given by Lawrence.t Lebert^ has recorded seven cases where sarcoma has spread to the neighbouring glands of the original growth and to various internal organs. Professor Smith, of Dublin,§ in a magnificently illustrated memoir, has published two cases in which neuroma occurred everywhere throughout the system ; and Virchow has recently given a case where neuroma returned in the arm four times, and was four times excised. || Lipoma may be general in the form of excessive obesity, but even when local occasionally returns after extirpation.^! Murchison** has given three cases where multiple fatty tumours were hereditary. Angionoma may be so constitutional, that cases have been published in which aneurisms were present in almost every artery of the body.tt As regards Cystoma, I have frequently been struck in opening dead bodies with the extensive distribution of cystic formations in some of them. In one man I found innumerable sebaceous cysts scattered over the whole anterior surface of the thorax and abdomen. Where, however, the occasional constitutional nature of cystoma is demonstrated, is in cases of bronchocele and mollusca. Adenoma is eminently consti¬ tutional, increased growths of the glandular system being common in various general disorders, as plague, syphilis, scrofula, typhoid fever, &c. Velpeau refers to several cases where it recurred after operation in the same or opposite breast, and Aiken§§ has recorded two well-observed instances where, subsequent to the growth having recurred in the mamma, it appeared in the lungs, liver, and ovaries. Epithelioma not only spreads to neighbouring glands, but has also been shown by Mr. Paget to infiltrate the lungs and heart, after operations for the removal of similar growths in distant organs.|||] Enchondroma has invaded numerous dissimilar textures, and among others in the same person, the testicle and lungs. ^[51 Osteoma, composed of true bone (not cancer in bone, or calcareous concretions) has in a case by Mr. Swan, after affecting the femur, appeared secondarily in the pleura, lungs, omentum, and diaphragm.*** Miillerttt has also referred to such constitutional osseous tumours under the name of Osteoids. Of the constitutional character of Carcinoma I need say nothing. * Surgical Pathology ; vol. ii, p. 151 et seq. f On Surgical Cancer ; p. 72. $ Traite d'Anatomie Pathologique ; p. 194 et seq. § Treatise on Neuroma. Folio. Dublin, 1849. II Archiv fur Pathol. Anat.; band xii, p. 114. Sedillot: Recherches sur le Cancer1849. Obs. xxix. ** Edinburgh Medical Journal; June, 1857. ft Cruveilhier: Livraison xxviii. Scarpa; fas. ix. Maladies des Sein; p. 404 et seq. §§ Medical Times; April 11th, 1857; p. 359. IIII Surgical Pathology ; vol. ii, pp. 448, 449. Paget in Medico-Chir. Trans.; vol. Fichte: Uebcr das Enchondrom; p. 58. *** London Pathology Trans.; vol. vi, p. 317. t f I Archivfur Anatomic und Physiologic. 1843; t. v, pp. 396—442.