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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![scurely moveable, and seemed deeper than the in- teguments. The surgeon, after making a free lon- gitudinal incision, separated it with ease from its attachments; and it appeared clearly to have been covered by several muscular fibres of the Biceps, as if imbedded in that muscle. The wound healed in a few days, and the tumor, On examination, appeared to be a true solitary glandular enlargement,—not of the steatomatous kind.—From the complexion of the lady, I sus- pected it might be scrofulous. Case 31.]—A person aged 30, having a large scirrhous tumor in one breast, had it removed by the knife. Several ligatures were made, to restrain the haemorrhage, all of which came away, on or before the 10th day. No bleeding followed, until the 13th day, when a considerable haemorrhage took place; not from any particular vessel, but from the whole surface. This was synchronous with the usual period of the catamenia, of which none appeared; the evacuation from the wound sup- plying the deficiency.—This, if other proofs were wanting, shows the sympathy between the uterus and mammae.—The disease, in this case, did not return. The lady came from Ireland ; and the operation was performed above 20 years ago. Case 32.]—A lady, between 50 and 60, the wife of a surgeon; of a melancholic temperament; lusty; using little exercise, and living luxuriously:](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
