On cancer of the mouth, tongue, and alimentary tract : their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / by Frederic Bowreman Jessett.

  • Jessett, Frederic B. (Frederic Bowreman)
Date:
1886
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Credit: On cancer of the mouth, tongue, and alimentary tract : their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / by Frederic Bowreman Jessett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Post Mortem.—The organs were generally healthy. The lunga were slightly pneumonic at bases, and contained a quantity of muco- purulent frothy fluid. The back of the tongue, pharynx, and tonsil were nearly healed. The wound generally looked sloughy. Case YI.—Epithelioma of Gums, extendini] to Jaw, necessitating the excision of the whole of Loioer Jaw. Recovery. Recurrence and Death nine months later. Under the care of the Author. ]Sr. M., setat 43. Epithelioma of gums and jaw, secondary to epithelioma of lip, was admitted to the Cancer Hospital on the 3rd May, 1885. Previous History.—Twenty years ago had a small warty growth on right side of lower lip, which was removed. There was no recurrence for thirteen years, when another growth sprang up in the cicsitrix ; the patient took but little notice of this, and had nothiug done to it for four years, when it had grown somewhat, and being troublesome he went to Ipswich Hospital, where a semicircular piece of the lip was removed and the wound healed. The growth, however, returned in nine mouths, when he was advised to consult Dr. Fell, who applied caustics to it several times with but little result. The patient then thought he could burn it out for himself, and he applied a paste made of the chloride of antimony, with the effect of eating away a considerable piece of the lip and aff'ecting the gum. Family History.—Sister said to have died of cancer. No other relatives affected. No history of syphilis or phthisis. Present State.—There is a gap in the lower lip a quarter of an inch wide and half an inch deep, situated opposite the right canine tooth, the gums are thickened and hard, and there is a nodule on the inside of the cheek. The parts were freely removed and brought together with hare- lip pins, and the wound healed quickly and well. Three months afterwards he returned, having noticed a swelling of his lower jaw on the right side, and suffering most violent neu- ralgic pains. Present Slate.—There is a swelling just beneath and slightly in front of the right inferior maxilla, about an inch from the sym- physis and sliglitly posterior to the old cicatrix. It has to the naked eye the appearance of an abscess about to burst, but to the touch it is firm though elastic. The swelling ia