Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard.
- Howard, John, Fellow of the College of Surgeons
- Date:
- 1811
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Credit: Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Case 43.]—A married lady, of a thin habit of body, and scrofulous, had one breast removed, for a cancer. Within seven months, the disease re- turned, at the cicatrix, and a new tumor arose, but so circumscribed that in consultation it was deter- mined the most probable chance for life would be to remove this tumor also. In a short time after the wound of this second operation had healed, a small immoveable hardness arose on the cicatrix, and there were two other small moveable tumors, not bigger than peas, near the axilla. These last, in time approximated, and the two became one tumor, and, like that on the cicatrix, was also fixed.—The progress of this last was quicker than the tumor on the cicatrix. Great care having been taken to keep the skin whole, by defending it with a mild litharge-plaister, an exudation only took place, for a considerable time, through its poresthat was followed by ex- coriation, by a yellowish crust or scab, and, at length, by ulceration. The tumor on the cicatrix followed now the course of the last tumor, and it ulcerated also. There was only an interval of seven months from the removal of the breast, until the second opera- tion; but there was an interval of nearly the same number of years, from the latter to the final termi- nation of the disease. Under the idea that Hemlock internally, and Plummer's Alterative Pills might be of service, she](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
