Our present means of successfully treating or alleviating cancer and tumours of the breast, tongue, lip, face, skin, etc. : to which is added a short, practical, and systematic description of the principal varieties of this disease / by Alexander Marsden.

  • Alexander Edwin Marsden
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[1889]
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Credit: Our present means of successfully treating or alleviating cancer and tumours of the breast, tongue, lip, face, skin, etc. : to which is added a short, practical, and systematic description of the principal varieties of this disease / by Alexander Marsden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Varieties.—i. Hard Epithelial. 2. Soft 3. Surface „ 4. Deep „ 5. Warty „ 6. Pedun- culated „ Order IV. Melanotic. Order V. Cystic or Colloid. Varieties.—i. Cystic or colloid, in combination with scirrhus or medullary cancer. 2. Cystic or colloid, in combination with adenoids, &c. (not cancerous). 3. Cysts, or colloid matter alone (not can- cerous.) Besides these there is a disease, although strictly speaking not cancerous, viz., lupus (rodent ulcer), almost as malignant and destructive. Tumours are also met with which cannot be classed under any particular head, many not being malignant, others 'running from one variety to another, or exhibiting the characteristics of even two or more at the same time. Cancer attacks females in preference to males, in the ratio of about five to one,—scirrhus being the most frequent enemy of the former, epithelial of the latter ; each sex is also more liable to the disease in one region than another. I shall now proceed to inquire into the peculiarities and distinctive features each order presents, the first being
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