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Credit: Outlines of human pathology / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![a light grey colour, glistening, and semitransparent; the interior texture succulent, in the softest parts tearing, when a little force was used, into gelatinous strings: at the cir- cumference, the texture became more dense, and approached more nearly, in colour and consistence, the character of scirrhus. There was no cavity in any part of the tumour, [y. 35.] On the fourth day after the operation, the patient com- plained of pain at the lower and inner angle of the wound. The wound was dressed : adhesion seemed to have taken place along the greater part, and there was no inflamma- tory tumefaction, or unusual tenderness, where the uneasi- ness was felt; yet, when she drew in her breath, there was some pain at this point which suddenly checked the inspi- ration. This symptom had come on during the preceding night. The pulse was ninety ; the skin something heated, but rather moist than otherwise ; the tongue neither furred nor dry. I thought it right, under these circumstances, to take away some blood : when she had lost fourteen ounces she became faint, and said that the pain had nearly left her. The blood showed that it would have a size. In less than an hour the pain recurred more severely than before. She was again bled to sixteen ounces, when she became faint again, and the pain was scarcely felt. She then fell into a doze, and, on awaking, declared herself entirely relieved from the pain and oppression of breathing. Every thing now went on favourably, and the wound had healed in a fortnight after the operation. There has been no return of the disease. The lady is now in good health. VIII. Encysted, tumours of the breast present the following varieties:—Sometimes the tumour is a portion of a galacto- phorous duct which has become obstructed, and, milk accu- mulating in it, has dilated it into a globular sac. Some- times the cyst contains serum only, or a transparent viscid liquid ; and, instead of one, there may be several. This kind probably arises in the same manner as the first. Cysts again containing transparent liquid are often met with m carcinomatous tumours of the breast: while, on the other hand, cysts that were simple originally, after great and con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21958518_0612.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
