Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard.
- Howard, John, Fellow of the College of Surgeons
- Date:
- 1811
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![for the sore, with cerate to cover the eclges of it, carrot-poultice, &c. were tried, but were merely palliatives. The ulcerated cancer arose from a small begin- ning, and was like the scirrhus in the other breast. Case 48.]—A woman, aged 24, had an ulcera- tion in the axilla, the origin of which was, what she called, a lump. It was seven years increasing in its progress to its present state of ulceration, and it had been ulcerated a year and a half.—She had also a fulness and tumor under the clavicle of the same side. This case was strictly scrofulous, and was cured by the external application of Wiltshire Holt Water. Case 49>]—A woman had a large ulcerated can- cer on the forehead, with caries, for fourteen years. It was first in the form of a pimple, no larger than a pin's head. It increased in three months to the size of a hazel-nut; and then, thinking there was matter in it, she herself cut off the top of the tumor with a pair of scissars:—blood only fol- lowed. She then applied blue-stone to it, and a poultice, which kept it under. After admission, into the Cancer-ward of the Middlesex Hospital, she became subject to sickness and vomiting She Of the truth of this relation I have no doubt, and I therefore' feel it to be a duty to record it. u 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
