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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![Case 6\]—Another gentleman, having an obsti- nate spreading ulceration, without any other symp- tom, which was supposed to be cancerous, was cured in the like manner.—And here I may observe, that the venereal sarcocele has been frequently (when the only symptom) mistaken for a scirrhous testis. But all these cases give way to mercury ; and its operation upon such a one, points out the true character of the disease. In persons afflicted with this complaint in the tongue, I have remarked a spongy scorbutic ap- pearance of the gums, and bad teeth. Some re- puted cancers of the tongue have been occasioned t>y wounds from jagged sharp points of decayed teeth. Others I have known to depend on a ve« juereal basis, and such are curable by the full and fair action of mercury. To a man of judgment and experience, the aspect of a cancer of the tongue, when connected with the history of the case, may probably point out the disease; but having seen reputed cancers, mistaken, but cured by mercury, I am strongly inclined to recommend this medicine in every doubtful and equivocal case, more especially where syphilitic symptoms have preceded, either lately or ever so remotely. Let the form in which it is used be fumigation with cinnabar, and that, in the first instance, without any other preparation of mercury, so that the fume may produce a full and fair local action. Of a doubtful nature, but perhaps allied to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
