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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![I have seen three extraordinary facts, two in the human body, and a third in an animal body. , Case 60.]—The first case was of a woman, aged CO, who came to consult me about a tumor she had had from her infancy. It had been nothing more than a wart, or mark of the mother, as she said. When I saw it first, there was a large tumor, ex- cessively painful, hard and circumscribed, with surrounding hardness, which had a serious dispo- sition to slough. She was herself apprehensive it was cancerous, for it was near her breast. I said, No; it was not:—that by using a proper poul- tice (Farin. Lini and Carrot) it would get well. The original tumor sloughed throughout, a suppu- ration having taken place in the surrounding parts ; which was evidently the work of nature, with very little assistance from art. Case 61.]—The second case was of a boy, who came to me with a large tumor in the neck, of the size and hardness of a cricket-ball, dipping down very deep, so as to preclude all idea of removal, from its attachment posteriorly, in the neighbour- hood of the carotid artery. I recommended him to foment it, night and morning, with warm salt- water*. This lessened the tumor in two weeks: and in two weeks more, I could feel a fluctuation m it, though obscurely. He came to me again, and told me it had gathered and broke. * Two table-spoonfuls of kitchen-salt, to half a pint of warm water.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
