Observations on the cure of cancer : with some remarks upon Mr. Young's treatment of that disease / by the late Thomas Denman, M.D.
- Thomas Denman
- Date:
- 1816
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the cure of cancer : with some remarks upon Mr. Young's treatment of that disease / by the late Thomas Denman, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![pearances : the centre is more compact, harder to the fee], and has a more uniform texture than the rest of the tumour, and is nearly of the con- sistence (density) of cartilage* This middle part does not exceed the size of a silver penny, and from this, like rays, in every direction are seen Ugamentous hands of a white colour, and very nar- row, looking in the section like so many extremely iiarrow irregular lines passing to the circumference ef the tumour, which is .blended with the sub* stance of the surrounding gland. In the inter- stices, between these bands, the substance is diffe- rent, and becomes less compact towards the outer edge. Gn a more minute examination, transverse ligamefitous hands^ of a fainter appearance, form a kind of network, in the meshes of which the new-formed substance is enclosed. This structure accords with what Dr. Baillie describes to be the case in cancerous diseases of the stomach and nte- rusr He again observes, that '' in a further ad- vanced stage of the tumour, the whole of the dis- eased part has a more uniform structure; no cen- tral point can be distinguished ; the external edge is more defined, and distinct from the surrounding gland; and the ligamentous bands, in different di- rections, are very apparent, but do not follow any regular course which can be traced. When the tumour has advanced to what may be called can-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21048915_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
