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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![-above the skin, and was then followed by a rapid ulceration:—this was the only symptom. The ulceration could not be stopped in its progress, until the fullest effects from mercury were pro- duced; and these effects I found it necessary to keep up, for a considerable time before the sore would heal. If these effects had not been of the most decisive kind, I am almost certain that the sore would never have healed; or that it would have put on the old, or some other, form. These last cases, no doubt, stood on a venereal basis. Cancers of the Hp are more frequent in men than in women, and occur generally in the lower spheres of life* They arise from small beginnings, —are followed by a corroding kind of ulceration, —general hardness and thickening of the lip,—. large discharge,—excavations, and fungous risings. Sat it is possible to have reputed cancer in this part, depending wholly on syphilis. The tumor, tt small, may be known not only bv its aspect, hut by its hardened base, and by its firm attach' ttent to the substance of the lip. In its more early statGj it may possibly be moveab]e; but j nave more frequently seen it adhering to the sub- jacent parts. * The deposition to cancer in the % in men of the lower or- #ers of hfe may have itg orjgin ^ ^ ^ of accidental adhesion of the tobacco-pipe. E.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
