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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![tumor or wart, in the most early stage. Soy m other warty kinds of cancerous tumors in old men and women, and in the noli-me-tangere of the face, a disposition to cutaneous eruptions, and to aifections oi' the small miliary glands of the skin, may be the predisponent causes; whilst age, and local irritation hy picking or scratching, prove to be the exciting causes; and the union or coinci- dence of both forms the proximate cause,—giving rise to the small incipient miliary enlargement, and Consequently to an obstinate spreading ulceration. Amongst other causes, cancer has been conjec- tured to arise from animalculae.—The Dracunculus or Guinea-worm has been found under the skin, but not in glandular parts particularly. And the fol- lowing account shows the existence of such things, Without the production of cancer. Case 4.]—A working gardener applied to a sur- geon about a pain, of uncertain recurrence, on thr forehead, the consequence, as he thought, of a former fall. His pain grew more and more violent in the fits, and all the circumstances, were such as induced the surgeon to suspect an injury of the Skull; he therefore made a crucial incision through the integuments, when, to his no small astonish- ment, a living worm, one inch and a half in length, was found to have been the cause of the pain. This fact was so well authenticated that I have no doubt of its truth, and the worm I had once in to possession. As the fall had broken the skin](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
