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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![f \ ON CANCER. 51 cancer, are some excrescences arising within the mouth. Case 7.]—Ahout thirty years ago, Mr. Percivall Pott removed a tumor of this kind, from a boy, with the actual cautery. And a like cure was ef- fected some years ago, in the Middlesex Hospital, by the same means, by my worthy colleague Mr' Samuel Howard:—but cases like these rarely hap- pen. As the stronger chemical caustics are not admissible within the mouth, the only application which gives a chance of removing the whole of the part diseased, with safety, is the actual cau- tery : and m such cases, principally, has modern practice ventured to apply it. Those Polypi of the nose which are not cancer- ous,-the polypi of the vagina, in the like pre- d.cament,-and the fungous excrescences within the rectum, originating in piles, and not actually a cancerous disposition, are to be distinguished from cancer. But there are some hard, incom- pressible polypi of the nose,-some tumors in the reSZ' Pr0baby>-and »°™ Sections of the le«urn, certainly, which are truly cancerous. kt ;r a?a cliseased miiiary &** °f *• s b „ 3rge after ulceration P'^uces a „ Sthat crust be nibbed on fifi : h is **** to the air, being *««nes m an ,„cmsted state and sometimes -](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
