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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![had been under the care of several persons, but she could not specify the treatment. Soon after this, it was discovered that the os frontis was carious: Opium and Bark were given freely, and different applications to the sore, but nothing checked its progress. It spread rapidly, corroding not only the integuments, but the skull itself, towards the root of the nose and eyes;—and in a few weeks she died. Case 50.]—A woman, aged 35, had a tumor of a fleshy or fungous kind, somewhat like a large nipple, but ulcerated, arising on the forehead. By her own account, it came at first like a pimple, and by degrees, during the course of a few years, it increased, and at last ulcerated. This tumor was removed by Mr. Samuel Howard; but in the space of a few months it returned, much larger than be- fore—and it bled frequently. In this state, she Was admitted again into the Cancer-ward; but in a5 few days, before a determination could be made as to what could be done decisively to this new sprouting of the disease, she was seized with a violent cough, great difficulty inbreathing, furred tongue, quick and low pulse, &c and died. Upon dissection, the pericardium was found adhering par- tially to the heart, with a portion of pus and water within its cavity. This woman was of a suspicious character, ne- vertheless there were no symptoms for supposing the complaint on the forehead to have any con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0112.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
