Rodent cancer : with photographic and other illustrations of its nature and treatment / by Charles H. Moore.

Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rodent cancer : with photographic and other illustrations of its nature and treatment / by Charles H. Moore. 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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    PAGE Fits temporary and usually slight . . . . . .56 occasionally severe ........ 57 not fatal in any case of Rodent Cancer 57 examples of death in other cases .... 56, 123, 126 General fitness of Rodent Cancer for operation . . . .57 APPENDIX OF CASES. Case L See Fig. 1. Rodent Cancer of the face, extending into the orbit, and destroy- ing the right eye. 61 Removal of the disease by excision, followed by the application of caustic 64 An epileptiform fit * . . .65 Recovery. Closure of the gap in the face by a mask . . 67 Death at 75 years of age, and post-mortem examination . . 69 Remarks ... 72 Case II. See Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5. Very deep and extensive Rodent Cancer of all the central parts of the face 74 Removal of the right eye and one half of the disease . . 79 No epilepsy. Material improvement of health .... 83 A fit following two punctures of the right upper lid . . . 83 Removal of the remaining half of the disease .... 84 Fits on the sixth and some following days .... 86 Subsequent recovery of general health 87 Death from bilious cholera 89 Remarks on cause of death and selection of diet . . . 91 Case III. See Figs. 6 and 7. Extensive Rodent Cancer of the central parts of the face, of twenty-six years’ duration 93 Incomplete removal of the disease with the galvanic cautery . 94 Wildness of manner, but no fit 94 Removal of the right eye with some remaining disease in the orbit 97 A third operation for a small ulcer at the junction of the scar and left eyelids 97 Recovery. Subsequent death from apoplexy (?)... 97 [Mr. Shaw likewise lost a case from sanguineous apoplexy some weeks after an extensive operation for Rodent Cancer.]