On malignant disease (sarcoma and carcinoma) of the larynx / by Henry T. Butlin.

  • Butlin, Henry T. (Henry Trentham), 1845-1912.
Date:
1883
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Credit: On malignant disease (sarcoma and carcinoma) of the larynx / by Henry T. Butlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    81 to 40 6 41 to 60 5 51 to 60 4 61 to 70 1 74 1 Uncertain 2 The youngest of tlie patients was seven years old, tlie oldest seventy-four, but in tlie first case the dis- ease was believed to be congenital. Between tliis child and tlie next patient there was a long interval of nearly twenty years. From twenty-four to sixty the disease was tolerably equally distributed. About four fifths of the patients were males ; in this respect the disease corresponds with carcinoma of the same and neighbouring parts. Occupation does not seem to have exercised a marked influence in the produc- tion of the tumours, but the great preponderance of males among the patients may suggest that strong and over-use of the voice, with perhaps tobacco- smoke and other irritants, play a part in the etio- logy of sarcoma. In two instances the tumours were attributed to severe colds. The course of the disease was for the most part slow. The cases are few in number in which the symptoms had not existed for at least a year before any attempt was made to remove the tumour; in more than one case this period was extended to three or four or more years. The progress was not, however, invariably thus rapid. Dr Burow* has recorded an example * Langenbeck's ' Arcbiv,' xviii, 249, obs. vi, 1875.