Case of enormous deep-seated tumour of the face and neck, successfully removed by operation / by James Spence, F.R.C.S.

  • James Spence
Date:
1863
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Credit: Case of enormous deep-seated tumour of the face and neck, successfully removed by operation / by James Spence, F.R.C.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OP ENORMOUS DEEP-SEATED TUMOUR OF THB FACE AND NECK, SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED BY OPERATION. In the beginning of October, 1862, I received a letter from Dr. Phipps, of Manchester, in reference to the patient whose case I am about to narrate. He gave me the general history of her case; and enclosed three photographic portraits, exhibiting a tumour from different points of view; and requested me to say whether I thought there was any possibility of removing it, as she was willing to run any risk to have it removed. The history of her case was as follows:— Mrs. Jepson, aged thirty-four, of a healthy appearance, states that, when eighteen years old she noticed what she calls a ' waxen kernel,' growing under the skin over the mastoid process of the right side, and immediately under the lobule of the ear. For two years it showed no tendency to grow larger; but afterwards it increased slowly; and she applied for relief to several medical men. In spite of the use of iodine, externally and internally, it continued to grow. She was married when she was twenty-one years of age; and states that during her pregnancies the tumoiu- appeared to
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