Observations on painful subcutaneous tubercle, with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood.

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[1829?]
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Credit: Observations on painful subcutaneous tubercle, with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    grand nombre de cellcs que j'ai operees ctait aux jambes ; une seule occupait I'avaut-bras. '1 his is a short but accurate description of the disease, and the author seems to have adopted the same opinion with Campei', that it depends upon an affection of the small branches of the subcutaneous nerves. He re- fers to the case detailed by Valsalva as being of the same nature. Odier of Geneva, in liis Manuel de Medecine Pratique, which contains a summary of a course of lectures delivered in 1800,1801 and 1804, in treat- ing of tumours says, J'appelle Chond?wne une petite tumeur mobile, et de substance cartilagineuse, que j'ai vue quelquefois, soit en consequence de quel que contusion, soit sans aucune cause conuue, se manifester dans les parties moUes, et que sa forme anguleuse et irreguliere rend souvent tres doulou- reuse. Elle ue se guerit que par I'excission. I am disposed to think that the disease to which Odier re- fers is the same with the one I have described, as the tubercles in it have been generally found to exhibit the appearance of cartilage ; and I am not aware of any other author having mentioned the existence, in the soft parts, of small pieces of real cartilaginous matter, producing pain only by their form. After having described the species of tumour which he terms Chondrome, he proceeds: Enfin, on pent don- ner le nom de Neuromes k ces tumeurs mobiles, cir- conscrites et profondes, qui sont produites par le gon- flement accidentel d'un nerf, k I'extremite duquel la compression de la tumeur fait eprouver des crampes
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