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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![been, it is very like that which I am about to de- scribe, although the seat of it be different. A gentleman, aged about 45, was attacked by, probably, a neiv species of cancer. Having, as he conceived, slept in a dirty bed abroad, a hard- ness and a scaly eruption came on one shoulder, nearly upon the head of the humerus, resembling Lepra, but which terminated in a slough. This ap* pearance, after some time, subsided, and caused the mark or cicatrix of a previous ulceration. After the complaint had left this shoulder, in a few months it attacked the other, below [Case 19.] the point of the shoulder, upon the upper part of the deltoid muscle, where a kind of indolent tumor, or hardness, arose, about the size of an egg; not in the muscle itself, but in the integuments. This hardness went on slowly through the course of -some months, and without much pain, until the skin became of a purplish hue, like a boil, but not so painful; and this was followed by a slough, which separated in a sluggish way, and left the muscle bare, deprived of the cellular and adipose membrane, and of a part of the skin. Then the sore healed. The gentleman's health was in a declining and very precarious state, before the appearance of the disease, and as it went on, he recovered. Finding only a local and external complaint, under in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
