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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![nishment I found a tumor like the first, with ex- coriation rather than ulceration, and a disposition in the skin to cicatrize, with a small discharge, and the tumor not very large, though painful at times i hut, neither affection of the miliary glands nor cough, and the health and appetite good:—her age was now 71. Case 37.]—In Case 34, the disease recurred after the affected parts had been removed by the knife, but in the Case which follows, it returned, although nature, assisted by art, without a surgical opera- tion of any kind, did the business.—-This cancer was perhaps of the kind to spread slowly. In the begirding of 1805, the last-mentioned woman came to me again. I found her health good; neither a sloughing, which I had appre- hended, nor any derangement of health having taken place since the former visit. There was au open sore, somewhat of an oval form, the smaller end of the oval towards the sternum, and towards the axilla: the sore was about 3§ by 2£ inches.— It had healed partially in the middle, forming, what the late Mr. Crane* was accustomed to call, Islands of Sunshine, but with a margin around the sore, from the tucking down of the skin, of considerable thickness, reddish, with the veins'ap- parent, and without affection of the axilla or mi- liary glands. She used, occasionally, decoction * Formerly surgeon to St. BartholomQw's Hospital.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0095.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
