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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![This large tumor had discharged its contents, of itself:—the original tumor was now levelled and fone; though there was a small orifice remaining, —but the skin was flat, and in a state of healing. Case 62.]—The third case was in an animal. What I am going to say may appear trifling; but I have had such an instance of the lessening of a tumor in the neck of a cat as appears to me worthy of notice. She was with kitten; and in her neck, during that time, there was a kind of scrofulous swelling on one side of it,—as large as a moderate- sized egg: it was hard and incompressible. This, as was stated, was before she kittened. I thought it a fair case for ascertaining whether the process of suckling her young would dissolve this tumor, ov reduce ft. She had four kittens, of which three were drowned, and one only was retained. She suckled this for two months, during which a gra- dual diminution of the tumor took place; and at this time (viz. four months from my first seeing the tumor) it is not a tenth part of the size it was during gestation. Though this tumor had no immediate connexion with the mammae of the animal, it had indirectly, through the lymphatic system ; and I do consider it as a%reat and important fact, applicable to the human body, for it shows, that by unloading the lymphatics, a tumor of no inconsiderable size may be lessened.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0120.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
