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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    these as it may any other adjacent part. When seated at or near the centre of the gland, it com- monly draws down the nipple, which descends, as it were, into a round pit sunk below the general level of the breast. As it extends, also, the cancer struc- tures deposited in the nipple make it hard, or very firm and elastic, inflexible, and comparatively im- moveable. * In most cases, scirrhus appears as a primary dis- ease, the lymphatic glands generally soon becoming affected as secondary disease; but what is very remarkable, the secondary disease is not in all cases the same as the primary, for scirrhus has been known to exist in the breast as the primary disease, whilst the glands became secondarily affected, not with scir- rhous, but with medullary cancer. Scirrhus appears to increase by the gradual addition of new particles to the surface of the diseased tumour already exist- ing. This form of disease, unlike medullary cancer, is but sparingly supplied with blood-vessels; indeed, some authors state that in scirrhous tumours no blood- vessels can be detected. However, these tumours, like all other parts, whether diseased or no, possess vessels for their nourishment and increase. Scirrhus, as a general rule, increases but slowly; but it increases
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