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Credit: Outlines of human pathology / by Herbert Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ture is fuller, and persists longer in married than in single women. VI. Scrofulous disease. I have not seen an instance of tuberculous deposit in the breast; when occurring in this organ, it is presumable that it would lead to chronic abscess, which after a time would contract and get well. VII. Malignant disease. I had reserved for this place the ge- neral consideration of malignant diseases affecting soft parts, partly hoping that before I reached the present chapter the result of Mr. Kiernan's inquiries would have been published, partly because the organ under consideration is the most fre- quently and remediably their seat. Being, however, in some degree acquainted with Mr. Kiernan's unpublished views, I must now limit myself to the description of the external character of these disorders, and their general appearance upon anatomical inspection. The basis of the division which I follow, the reader will find in an account of some cases given in the Medical and Physical Journal for Janu- ary, 1830. The malignant diseases of the breast are carcinoma, me- dullary sarcoma, gelatiniform sarcoma, melanoma. 1. Carcinoma. This disease, which forms forty-nine fif- tieths of malignant diseases of the breast, when examined after death, presents three distinct morbid appearances, which are often met with combined in the same part, al- though sometimes, but rarely, they are met with separately. a. A tumour, the whole of which nearly resembles carti- lage in structure, dense, of a greyish or blueish white, with a slight approach to transparency, elastic, cutting with the same sound as cartilage. [Y. 1.] b. A tumour, cutting crisply, like the texture of an unripe pear, of a grey colour, succulent, with yellowish or whitish lines, containing an inspissated substance, probably tubuli lactiferi. [Y. 2.] c. A softer texture, more vascular, or red with partial ves- sels, and succulent, not without some crispness when cut through, when squeezed giving out fluid partly serous, partly opaque and white. [Y. 3. 4.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21066735_0602.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
