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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![of Poppies, as & fomentation. The progress of the disease was slow, but the event would be, I then thought, unfortunate. In the summer of 1805, she was with me again;—the sore was stationary, with a reddish thickened margin,—the discharge trifling,—pain little,—the sore in the middle was actually heal- ing, and covered partially with skin. Her general health was good, and no axillary affection what- ever. Case 38.]—I was desired to see a woman who had been originally under the care of another gen- tleman for a tumor of the breast, which must have been large, from the great size of the cicatrix. Urn application had been of the caustic kind. After a large separation of parts, it was evident that the sore had healed perfectly; and the patient's health was, with the exception of her local ma- lady, tolerably good. I had often seen a repullulation of the disease, after the operation with the knife, but this was the only instance (probably from my not having often met with similar practice) in which the sore was healed after caustic. There was, as happens under the operation, the like kind of hardness in the cicatrix, going on de novo; and though I do not precisely know the event, I have no doubt it ended fatally, for the disease was beginning to make its usual ravages;—it was tendin^ to diste ulceration, and was spreading towards the axilla.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
