Observations on neuroma : with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood.

  • Wood, William, 1783-1858.
Date:
[1828?]
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    disease was seated in internal parts of the body. In one, the tumour was laid open, with the view of bringing on suppuration ; in this case the patient died, it is said of intermittent fever of the quoti- dian form, twelve days after the operation. In one the disease was cured by the destruction of the nerve by the application of caustic. I shall now proceed to give an account of the cases which I have collected. I am afraid that the detail may appear tedious; but I find it impossible to give any abstract of them, without incurring the risk of doing injustice to the medical men by whom they were treated, or are reported. Cheselden is the first author, who, so far as I know, has given a distinct account of the disease. There is a representation in his work of a nervous tumour, of which lie gives the following descrip- tion : Case I.—“ A tumour formed in the centre of the cubital nerve, a little above the bend of the arm; it was of the cistic kind, but contained a transparent jelly ; the filaments of the nerve were di- vided, and ran over its surface. This tumour occasioned a great numbness in all the parts that nerve leads to, and excessive pain upon the least touch or motion. This operation was done but a few weeks since; the pain is entirely ceased ; the numbness a lit- tle increased ; and the limb, as yet, not wasted Anatomy of the Human Body, by W. Cheselden, 10th edit. Loud. 1773, p. 2oG.