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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![they were; but it was some gratification to find many circumstances I had noted corroborated by so excellent a surgeon. If two or more men make their observations on a disease, common appearances will be evident to them all, as in sketching a view from nature; and, if they copy fairly, there will be a likeness in the different sketches. ; The resemblances may be just, though expressed in a different manner, and with a different mode of colouring. I remember a very sensible and correct man telling me, many years ago, that in a particular part of Arabia he had seen sheep kept alive and nourished by fish taken out of the sea. The thing would appear incredible to a native of this country who had never been beyond it:—but it is a truth ; for the same fact has also been observed by modern travellers, and was recorded by Herodotus more than two thou- sand years ago.—The more witnesses there are to the same fact, the stronger is the evidence of its truth, and the firmer will be the foundation of our principles of practice. Diagnosis of an External Cancer.'] A cancer, in its incipient state, is a scirrhus ; that is, an indfa* ration of one or more glands; in some cases move- able, in others fixed to the subjacent parts. In- some instances, the induration is solitary, that is, of one gland only, as in one testis, or in a single](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
