An account of the methods pursued in the treatment of cancerous and schirrhous disorders, and other indurations ... / [J.O. Justamond].

  • John Obadiah Justamond
Date:
1780
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Credit: An account of the methods pursued in the treatment of cancerous and schirrhous disorders, and other indurations ... / [J.O. Justamond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >56 ] without any interruption of the complaints, till they had arrived at the bad date in which I fil'd: faw them It is probable too from all that has been faid before, that the recent in¬ duration mentioned in the fecond part of this work, and which fucceeded the abfeefs of the I have generally obferved too that the fchirrhous tumours I have feen, which were traced from the milk bread:, were always of a more irregular angular form, and flatter than other fchirrhous tumours, which could not be apparently traced from the fame caufe. It fhould feem, therefore, that the fchirrhus fucceeding the induration of the milk bread, adopts the fame kind of form that it had before its degeneracy. This diverfity of form, indeed, has been confidered as one of the didinguifhing marks of this difeafe ; but I cannot think that the round or regular oblcftig figure is a charadleridic of the true fchirrhus, which puts on all forts of forms. Perhaps, if the observation here laid down fhould be made by others, we may at lad come to didinguifh thofe kinds of fchirrhous tu¬ mours that fucceed the induration of the milk bread from others. Whether fuch a didin&ion will be of any ufe in practice I cannot tell ; but from all I have been able to obferve upon this matter, I am inclined to think that thefe irregular fchirrhous tumours are more obdinate than thofe which are round and fmooth. bread.