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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![. stance, which is not a local but a general disease, although it may exhibit itself in one place only ? This case I noted more than twenty-eight years ago: at that time the great utility of purgatives and issues I did not know, nor were they attended to by medical men. I make no hesitation in say- ing that had I known so much then, there would have been a great probability of prolonging this persou's life, after the appearance of the three small tumors, beyond the period of seven years from the second operation :—a want of knowledge I shall regret, to the last moment of mv life ! Case 44.]—A corpulent woman* whose left breast was very much enlarged,—not ulcerated,-^ moveable, without axillary affection, submitted to its removal; ai?d the whole was fairly dissected In Cheselden's Anatomy, p. 140. edit. gvo. is this remarkable passage :r— The breasts and ute- rus in women, the tongue, mouth and penis in men, and the eyes in children, are the parts 4nost subject to cancer; yet there is no part u where this disease has not sometimes fixed; It is a matter of dispute among some surgeons, whether cancerous tumors should ever be extir- << pated or not, though it is certain none of these were ever cured without, and, being extirpated, # * This case, amongst others, is derived from the Cancer-ward m the Middles** Hospital, founded by the munificence of the late Samuel Whitbread, Esquire-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
