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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![able ulceration in the upper lip, which came ori- ginally from a blow: this sore never healed. In a month, it became painful, and at the time of ad- mission into the Hospital the fresh ulceration was plentiful. This ulceration was cured by the internal and external use of mercury, in two months (viz. Aq. Phagedenic, et Aq. Calcis, as topics, with Pil. Plummer. as a general remedy).—This case I sus- pected to have been venereal, but it may not have been so, for sores of all kinds do sometimes spread and become troublesome, from a bad habit, without venereal mischief; and hence it is that mercury, as a corrector, has frequently the best effects. Case 59.]—An aged woman, with scirrhus, and hardness extending to the axilla, when admitted into the Cancer-ward had had a cough, with much difficulty in breathing, for the space of two months; medical assistance could not remedy this, and she died from the violence of the affection,— although the cancerous tumors had not ulcerated. The last stage of cancer is (as has been fully ex- plained) marked by cough and great difficulty in respiration; but here they came on at a more early period, viz. before ulceration. . At Bedwell-Lodge, Hertfordshire*, Nov. Uh, 1805.—Since I have been here, only a few months, * The summer-residencs of the j^thor. E.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0118.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
