Observations on the treatment of scirrhous tumours, and cancers of the breast / by James Nooth.

  • Nooth, James.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on the treatment of scirrhous tumours, and cancers of the breast / by James Nooth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 [ 11 ] perfe&ly fimilar in their nature, as is every conco- mitant fymptom, whilft in a fcirrhous ffate, and their progrefs towards cancer are uniformly alike, and claim the fame treatment; and it may be alked, has not extirpation confirmed this opinion ? Although a fatisfa&ory explanation cannot be given of the immediate or proximate caufe of a fcirrhus, or how this vitiated ftate of the fluids and folids is pro- duced, it may be allowed me to mention what appear- ances have been obferved on examination of tumours after extirpation. I have always found much unifor- mity in their ftru&ure, but the different flages of difeafe have prefented fome circumflances refpe&ing their compofition which deferve very ftrift attention. The furface has generally been very hard, containing a few minute veffels filled with red blood; but it was not poffible to detach the outer coats in the fame way fubflances compofed of mufcular fibres can be feparated ; the whole body was compofed of tough fibres, convoluted and interwoven together. In fome of the tumours that were fmall and recently formed, I have found the ftru&ure become progreflively harder, and of a paler colour near the center: but others, longer fubjeff to a difeafed aftion, have been fofter, with apparent cells, containing a yellowilh white liquor in a vifcid fiate. Where the difeafe had long exifted, I have frequently found portions of the tumour which prefented a radiated appearance, which feemed to have been generated from the center.