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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![operation had been performed. The son of this lady was of a scrofulous aspect; and a daughter of this son had a tumor removed, which appeared to be scrofulous. A grandson died from disease of the mesenteric glands ; and another grandson is living, perfectly healthy. Another daughter is healthy and well, but she has a hoarse voice, and a rough, dry, scaly skin.—Here the family tendency to Elephantiasis or Lepra seems greatly broken down, and the connexion between Cancer, Lepra and Scrofula remote, and hardly discernible. Case 24.]—A lady, aged 60, having very weak eyes, subject to inflammation, with raw and sore eyelids, and specks on one cornea, with evident scars of scrofulous tumors which had formerly sup- purated in her neck, had an adherent Cancer, which did not admit of removal by an operation, and which, after continuing some years, ended badly. Case 25.]—A single woman, fifty years of age, had a Cancer of the breast, not ulcerated, but whe- ther moveable or not I cannot say, for my memo* randum, dated 1764, does not mention. The ad* vice of an eminent surgeon was to do nothing more than palliate the disease; that if the tumor was once irritated it would be like rousing a sleep- ing hon. Contrary to this, however, the lady ap- plied to a gentleman, famous at that time for the application of a peculiar caustic. His caustic was* submitted to; but in the course of a few month, ahe died, for the ulcer never healed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
