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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![to the mind, which is in such a case rather sedate than lively, and slow rather than quick in its ope- rations, with a hilious tendency. The phlegmatic temperament they knew from its proneness to dis- eases which they supposed of a cold kind, in which there was rather a torpor than a great irritability of the nerves, and but little disposition to active in- flammation. And, in the sanguineous temperament, they were almost as sensible of its great irritability and proneness to inflammation, as we are at this day. The doctrine of temperament therefore is I conceive founded in truth and nature; and that the different temperaments actually influence the course of many cancers, I have no doubt. They will account, in some measure, for the slow in- crease of some cancers, and for the great rapidity of it sometimes in others; and also, in part, for those bilious affections, indigestion and vomiting, which frequently take place, if not before the attack of the disease, or during its formation, at least afterwards. I have noted these, frequently, during the advance of it; and I have known it also precede it.—The rapid progress of scirrhous tumors is more particularly remarkable in fair women of a sanguineous temperament, because such are constitutionally subject to inflammation. Case 20.]—A large corpulent woman, aged 60, had a cancer of the whole breast, not ulcerated, with a beginning affection of the glands in the axilla. An operation was performed; and the.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
