Surgical cases and observations / [Richard Carmichael].

  • Richard Carmichael
Date:
1818
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Credit: Surgical cases and observations / [Richard Carmichael]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 tion) to the neck on which it descended, it mea« sured five inches—Horizontally, immediately below the ear at its superior part, three inches and a half; and at its inferior part, full five in¬ ches ; so that it gradually increased in volume towards its lower termination. It was of a firm consistence, but not of that cartilaginous hardness which cancer, in this situation, usually possesses. It evidently adhered to the bones 5 but I thought it possible that it might be merely attached to the mastoid process, and to the angle of the inferior jaw bone, as it was very moveable on insinuating the fingers under the lowest and most projecting part* In this, however, as will appear in the sub¬ sequent account of the operation, my hopes were not realized; for it was found to be fixed to the transverse process of the first cervical vertebra, and to the bones which form the basis of the skull. The patient, ,a respectable shopkeeper, residing in ParsonVtown, was a man of temperate habits, about forty years of age. The tumour, according to his statement, was first observed about the size of a kidney-bean, lying below the ear, fourteen years previous to the operation. It increased slowly, and in four years had attained the size o( an egg ; at which time it was removed by an eminent practi-