Observations on painful subcutaneous tubercle, with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood.

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[1829?]
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Credit: Observations on painful subcutaneous tubercle, with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tumour acquired its former irritability, and she was affected precisely in the same manner as she had been during her first pregnancy. At this period an attempt was made, by a surgeon, to cure the dis- ease, by making a crucial incision into the tumour, to promote suppuration, and to destroy its irritabili- ty ; but as this failed, excision was had recourse to, which proved effectual. Immediately after her third conception, however, the little tumour was repro- duced, but did not increase quite to its former size, and the paroxysms of pain commenced and returned two or three times daily, as during the former preg- nancy. When the third child was born, the tu- mour became at once perfectly indolent, as it had formerly done. The patient having again conceived, the irritability of the little tumour commenced as usual, and the periodical pain became more violent than ever. At this time Dr Bisset was consulted, who directed the application of the caust. commune fort., which produced its effect in twenty minutes. After the separation of the eschar, some small re- mains of the tumour were destroyed by caustic. By this means an effectual cure was accomplished, as, during two successive pregnancies, there was not the least return of the diseasa In the first case detailed by Mr Pearson, the tu- mour was of seventeen years' standing; it occurred in a married female, of 51 years of age, when in the third month of her second pregnancy. The skin, says Mr Pearson, which covered the particular seat of her complaint, retained its natural colour;