Report of the hospital at Canton for 1853-54, under the care of Benj. Hobson.

  • Benjamin Hobson
Date:
1854
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Credit: Report of the hospital at Canton for 1853-54, under the care of Benj. Hobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    vessels to the bone, but this was not larger than a quill and nearly all taken away. She was soon discharged well. On section of the tumor it presented all the appearances common to soft cancerous growths. This woman returned eight months afterward, presenting a much larger tumor growing from the same place with a bleeding fungus; a second operation was desired, but it held out no hope of cure and was therefore declined. 3d. Operated on a man with tumor of the left eye, involving ap- parently the whole orbit; on close examination, the pupil was found turned to the outer side, entirely concealed by the tumor, which was attached to the sclerotic, and to our surprise the sight was found uninjured. The tumor was carefully dissected out, and the patient discharged with good vision. He had of course strabismus. 4th. In May removed a pendulous tumor of five years growth, discharging offensive matter from the arm, close to the axilla, in a woman of 48 years. The attachments were deep, but entirely taken away, healed by granulation, and discharged cured. 5th. In June operated on a tumor of the left side of the neck on a man from the country. This has been growing for 14 years; marks of native treatment are visibly left on the tumor. It is about the size of an infant’s head, of a lobulated character, moveable, attach- ments not extensive, but apparently deep. The patient like the pre- ceding case, was put under the influence of Chloroform, and the tumor carefully dissected out to avoid the large vessels. The connec- tions proved not so deep as was feared, the whole mass was easily dislodged, and the cut surface is now, 15 days afterwards, nearly healed over, and the man no longer an objecl of general remark. Section of the tumor shewed it to be composed of a hard fibro- cartilaginous substance. June. 6th. A young woman unmarried but betrothed, present- ed herself with a tumor of the right cheek, which is a bar to her marriage, and requests it may be removed. Its growth first commenc- ed 6 years ago from an accidental blow from a bamboo. It has gra- dually increased without pain to the size of an orange. It was on examination seen to be not a true osteo-sarcoma of the antrum, but a fluctuating tumor surrounded on all sides with bone except in two places. There was no profusion into the palate, the roof of the mouth being quite natural; the expansion of bone commenced from the malar bone and side of the orbit above, and from the border of the alveolar processes below, distorting the appearance of the mouth very much. There appeared no malignity about it; an opening was
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