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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![♦ 84 ON CANCER. its rapid increase and consequent ulceration; but, alter her delivery, when the parts were in a state of mortification, would it have been better to have continued the wine, bark and opium, and an- tiseptics externally, as she had gained strength under their use, in the further hope of having a large separation of slough, a cleaner sore, and more established health, in order to the operation, if that should have been judged necessary ulti- mately ?—It is possible that her life might have been thus prolonged, for a short time; but I am of opinion that the disease would have returned as certainly under the one method of treatment as the other. Case 35.]—Many years ago, I was consulted by a surgeon in a case of cancer in a female patient, in which the whole breast had mortified, from the great distension of parts, and had sloughed throughout, leaving a clean and tolerably healthy- looking sore, of large extent. The separation of the sloughs and the healthy appearance of the sore were produced by Bark, and by the external and internal use of Hemlock.—The event of the case never came to my knowledge. Case 36.]—A woman aged 69, apparently healthy, consulted me about a tumor, not imme- diately on the breast, but half way between it and the axilla, about the size of a hen's egg, hard, and very painful at times, particularly at night; the surface shining, of a purplish hue, and the skin](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
