Cancer / illustrated by 1000 cases from the registers of the Middlesex Hospital.

  • Nunn, T. W. (Thomas William), 1825-1909.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Cancer / illustrated by 1000 cases from the registers of the Middlesex Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Case XIL Both Breasts a fee ted—Atrophic Cancer of the Right Breast, commencing on Weaning—Nodules of Cancer in the Left Breast— Cancer of the Uterus. Mary Holloway, a3t. 42. Married. Five children. Admitted out-patient, June, 1862. Atrophic cancer of the right breast; axillary glands enlarged. The general health was bad. She had been under Dr. Chorley, at Marylebone Dispensary, with hemoptysis. The cancer had existed twelve months, and it commenced on the weaniiicr of her last child, which she had suckled eight months. Her father died aged 55, of consumption. Her mother died aged 40. She remained out-patient during ten months, by which time numerous nodules of cancer had made their appearance in the opposite breast. She died in the hospital, July 24th, 1863. On post-mortem examination the right lung was found adherent at a part corresponding to the breast. The left lung was free from adhesion. There were cancerous nodules in the liver, and the OS uteri was cancerous. Case XIII. Cancer of L^eft Breast at early age, commencing during pregnancy loith fifth child—Mastitis after birth of third child—Cerebrospinal symptoms and excessive obesity. (Extract from Paper read at Clinical Society.) Mrs. li , ffit. 27, the mother of five children. I saw Mrs. K first on the 23rd of April, 1872, only two months after her confinement with her fifth child. There was a tumour in the axillary lobes of the left breast, not well defined, and about the size of half an orange. This tumour she discovered in November, 1871—that'is, at the seventh month of her pregnancy. After the birth of her third child she had suffered from inflammation of the affected breast, terminating by resolution, and she went through the next lying-in, in Februarv, 1870, without E