Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard.
- Howard, John, Fellow of the College of Surgeons
- Date:
- 1811
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![dency to the disease is much more frequent than is generally imagined. Case 22.]—A woman, about 50 years old, of a dark complexion and melancholic temperament, had a cancer of the breast, of which she died. Her countenance had been ever unhealthy and plumbean.—The husband of this woman had a scrofulous aspect, but without any actual disease about him.—The son of this couple, at the age of 14, laboured under an apparent Elephantiasis, of which he died. His voice was usually hoarse, his cars enlarged) swelled and scabby; the nose was destroyed slowly by a dry and scaly sort of ulcera- tion; and his respiration was difficult. In this boy's case there Was certainly no swelling of the legs, as in the true Elephantiasis; but I am of opinion it was a modification of that disease. In the two first. Cases, page 20, the family connexion between another modification of Elephantiasis, or Lepra and Scrofula, was shown; but here is an instance exhibiting the direct correspondence of cancer in the mother with Elephantiasis in the son. And, if I were even to put my suspicion out of the question, about the father being scrofulous, it is certain that there was a mixture of scrofula in the family, because two other children of this couple were scrofulous, by evident marks. Here might therefore be said to be a combination of Cancer, Elephantiasis and Scrofula, in the same family. , Case 23.]—An elderly lady died of a cancer : no](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0078.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
