Johnson's family physician : from the ablest medical authorities, giving numerous and dangerous diseases to which the human race is subject, the symptoms and treatment, or what is necessary to be done in an emergency for the patient before the physician arrives, thereby alleviating suffering and often saving life / by E. Darwin Hudson, with articles from the most eminent physicians, among whom are Willard Parker [and others].
- Hudson, E. Darwin (Erasmus Darwin), Jr., 1843-1887.
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Johnson's family physician : from the ablest medical authorities, giving numerous and dangerous diseases to which the human race is subject, the symptoms and treatment, or what is necessary to be done in an emergency for the patient before the physician arrives, thereby alleviating suffering and often saving life / by E. Darwin Hudson, with articles from the most eminent physicians, among whom are Willard Parker [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![parison of the characters of malignant and non-malignant tumors, and also upon a thorough knowledge of the anatomy and relations of the textures in Avhich they arise. The attempts to distinguish these from other growths call for the highest qualities of the surgeon, including a know- ledge of minute structure as obtained by the use of the microscope. The most common seats of cancer are, the female breast, the eye, the tongue, the lii), the male genital organs; the liver, stomach, uterus, rectum, gullet, peritoneum, and lym- phatic glands. Scirrhus or hard cancer, ob- served most frequently in the breast, uterus, and stomach, is more frequently solitary than encephaloid (brain-like), otherwise called medullary or soft cancer; the rare colloid cancer is of a glue-like consistency; melanosis, or melanic cancer, a variety charged with brown or black pigment, is almost always multiple in its occurrence; while epithelial cancer, or epithelioma, of which examples are frequently found in the lip and tongue, is so generally solitary as to have led some pathologists to place it in a class altogether apart from the truly cancer- ous growths. Again, there are varieties of fibrous and of cartilaginous tumor, as well as certain tumors of bone and bone-like tumors in soft parts (osteoid), Avhich occupy a doubtful position between the malignant and non-malignant growths, the so-called cauliflower excrescence being one of the number. A tumor falls under the suspicion of being cancer when it infiltrates the texture in which it arises and passes into the surround- ing textures; when it invades the lymphatic glands; when it is attended by stinging or darting pains, or by obstinate and slowly extending ulceration; when it occurs in a per- son having impaired health or past middle life, and is not traceable to any known cause of inflammatory disease or local irritation, nor to any other known constitutional dis- ease, such as syphilis or scrofula. But the elements of diagnosis here referred to ought to be early submitted to the scrutiny and judgment of a well-educated medical ad- viser. The removal of cancerous tumors is re- sorted to by surgeons, and when performed early in well-selected cases it has been fol- lowed by long-continued exemption. Ope- rations are rarely performed after the lym- phatic glands are involved, or when there is evidence of a deteriorated constitution or of internal disease. Can^crum O'ris (synonyms, noma, aqueous cancer), a mortification of the cheek, mostly in children who have long suffered from poverty, moist or close air, or fever. The proximate cause is generally found in an imprudent administration of mercury, or in the inanition and dissolution of the blood from measles, typhoid fever, whooi)ing cough, or dysentery. It is almost always fatal. When the malady is developed the diseased portion must be disinfected by permanga- nate of potassa or carbolic acid, or destroyed by concentrated mineral acids, chloride of zinc, arsenic paste, or the red-hot iron. The general condition of the patient requires a generous diet, and the administration of stimulants and iron, or quinia, or both combined. Can^ker in the Mouth. See Mouth, Dis- eases OF. Car^buncle [Lat. carbunculus, a small coal], the anthrax of surgical writers, is a violent and painful inflammation, larger than a boil, on any part of the skin, most frequently on the back. The part swells ancf hardens, and, as the disease advances, assumes a livid redness. The cuticle often rises in blisters, and a number of small openings may occur, through which matter escapes. The origin of carbuncle seems to be constitutional, and it is usually attended by great suffering and considerable prostra- tion. It is sometimes fatal, especially to old people. In its treatment, besides supporting the patient's strength and softening the skin by warm poultices, it is usual to divide the skin early and freely with a knife, or to de- stroy its surface with caustic. Carcino'ma. See Cancer. CardiaPgia, or Car^dialgy [from KapSia, the heart, and alyoq, pain], literally, pain in the heart. The term is commonly ap- plied, however, to the uneasiness (heartburn) connected with indigestion, the seat of which is really in the stomach. Eelieved by bicar- bonate of soda, bismuth, and guarded diet. (See Indigestion.) Cardi'tis, inflammation of the heart. See Endocakditis and Pericarditis. Carries, a term used to designate both open ulcer of bone and chronic ostitis or inflam- mation of the connective tissue of bone, with solution of the earthy part. It begins as an inflammation, accompanied by perios- titis, followed by exudation of new materials and softening. Sometimes the bone-cells are filled with a reddish fluid, and there are masses of tubercle. After caries has existed for some time the abscess bursts; its aper- ture remains open, discharging a fluid which contains particles of bone. If a probe be passed through this opening, it will be felt to sink into a soft, gritty substance; this is cari- ous bone. It is molecular death of bone, while necrosis is death of a large mass of bone. Caries usually selects the vertebra, the bones of the wrist and foot, and the soft](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131041_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
