A treatise on cancer, and its treatment / by J. Weldon Fell.

  • Jesse Weldon Fell
Date:
1857
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Credit: A treatise on cancer, and its treatment / by J. Weldon Fell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    than four cases are at present perfectly well. Mr. Paget, in his invaluable work, has given 103 tabu- lated instances of medullary cancer in external parts; the seat of primary disease was in the Testicle . . . . ' . . . in 29 cases. Bones (most frequently the femur) „ 21 „ Limbs (most frequently the inter-muscular spaces) . . „ 19 „ Eye-ball or orbit . . . . „ 10 „ Breast „ 7 „ Walls of the chest or abdomen „ 5 „ Lymphatics „ 4 „ Various other parts . . . „ 8 „ 103* „ Encephaloid cancers acquire a larger size than almost any other morbid formation; with the exception of confirmed cystoid and enchondromatous masses, no growths, so called, ever compete with them in this respect. Tumours, as large as the head of an adult, are by no means uncommon. Abernethy mentions a case where a mass of these dimensions exhibited itself in each groin. Professor P. H. Berard observed an encephaloid tumour on the thigh of a female as
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