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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![Many years ago, I was desired to see a poor man in the country, from whom one testis had been removed, some time before, the particulars of which I could not learn. After the operation, the disease attacked the other testis ; [Case lo.j and when I saw him, there was a deep slough in the scrotum, with some hard- ness of the testis. This slough, I understood afterwards, separated, and the man recovered, ■ without a second operation. A gentleman, living in Goodman's Fields, had one testis removed; and disease came on afterwards in the other.—He had a distempered, plumbean kind of countenance. In this remain- [Case 16s.] ing testis there was a diseased hard- ness ; and in the scrotum there was & slough, which primarily attacked this part, and affected the testicle afterwards*. Cases, 17 and 18.]—I have since seen two other eases, very similar to these, but not so far ad- vanced.. The event of the first I could not learn: .the second ended in the removal of the testis; and the same indisposition attacked the other after- wards. Whether these were scrofulous, in the common acceptation of that word, I do not know : I think it most probable that they were cancers of a particular kind. Whatever the disease may have * This person died suddenly, whilst under my care ; but I had sot an opportunity of examining the body.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
