Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard.
- Howard, John, Fellow of the College of Surgeons
- Date:
- 1811
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ON CANCXll. 40 blue eyes,—generally advanced in life,—and but once only in a person under forty. The numerous glands which enter into the general structure of the surface of the organ, and the approximate glands, need not be enlarged upon; suffice it to say, that the disease here, as in most other parts, is a glandular affection, in the first instance; the muscular parts of the tongue being injured only secondarily, by a spreading ulceration and corro- sion. As in other cancers, so in this, irritation, Jrom whatever cause it nmy take place, may produce local cancerous affection. Case 5.]—A gentleman had an ulceration and an enlargement of the tongue, to such a degree as to be double its natural size. This had continued seven years, sometimes better, and sometimes worse. He was under the care of the late Mr Percvall Pott; but before this, by other advice,' c had feen unde1' * mercurial course, after the Hontp^ «etbod. His case stood upon a vene- urv -I8'' A: diSCaSe had been by mer- S 'aS kGpt hl a State of suppression, with- h d been T*^ ** ^tinuance, d>ebous7? ' ad hy c°»nneme„t to S°-^^rwardsI as tn * y } f SeemS hun Perfectly well](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
