A treatise on cancer, and its treatment / by J. Weldon Fell.
- Jesse Weldon Fell
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on cancer, and its treatment / by J. Weldon Fell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![NO, XIX.—OSTEO-SARCOMA OF THE LOWER JAW. May 23rd, 185t>.—Miss M. A. H , aged twenty-one years.—Six years ago this disease showed itself in connexion with the wisdom teeth. The tooth of the right side was extracted, but the disease grew with great rapidity until the 13th February, 1853, when Dr. W. V. Pettigrew skilfully exsected the portion of the jaw-bone involved in the disease. The wound healed nicely ; it however returned, and increased slowly until about a year ago, when it grew rapidly. May 23rd, 1856,—Dr. Pettigrew sent her to me this forenoon. The whole angle and side of the jaw being very much enlarged, I told her that I would try and arrest the progress of the disease, and applied the brown ointment, alternating it with the ointment of the iodide of lead. June 13th.—The patient thinks that the swelling is less. April 7th, 1857.—The applications were regularly applied for seven months, and the disease was completely arrested until a few weeks ago, when it again began to increase, and it is feared that another operation will become necessary. P.S.—Mr. Fergusson exsected a portion of the jaw on May 2nd, and Miss H died the next day. No. XX.—TUMOUR OF RIGHT BREAST. June 2nd, 1856.—Miss A , aged fifty-six years.— During the summer of 1855 she first felt pain in the right breast. It was “ shooting, ])iicking pain, like needles.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22336849_0088.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
