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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![felt pain, and perceived a small degree of hardness in one breast. The whole breast was taken off, within a fortnight after it was first noticed. Upon examination after removal, there was neither ex- travasation nor glandular induration, but a thick- ening and a hardness of, what seemed to me more like, condensed diseased cellular membrane, than any thing else to which I could compare it. The axillary glands were not affected, nor was the tu- mor of great size; and it was perfectly moveable. If, in this case, the indurated part only had been removed, without taking away the whole of the mamma, I should not have wondered at a relapse; but when the operator went clearly beyond the ap- parent extent of the disease, in every direction,— when he dissected the whole from the pectoral muscle, so as to leave the fibres of that muscle bare, and that too at an early period of the disease,—I say, when all these circumstances were considered, it was matter of astonishment to me that the un- fortunate sufferer did not obtain a cure! But the fact was otherwise. Case 33.]—Milk-abscess ; but with singular and important circumstances.—A married woman, of a healthy sanguineous temperament, but not corpu- lent, who from the form of her right nipple was never able to suckle her children with that breast, !—six mouths after having lain in with her fifth](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
