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

  • Wood, William, 1783-1858.
Date:
[1828?]
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Credit: Observations on painful subcutaneous tubercle : with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    viewer of Dr Abercrombie’s very valuable work on the Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord, con- tained in the last number of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, I have looked into such of these works as were within my reach, and have had the sa- tisfaction of finding that many cases of the disease have been published, and that some interesting and accurate accounts of its history have been written both previous to and since 1812, 1 shall proceed to give an abstract of these cases and histories, as seve- ral of them are contained in works not generally in the hands of medical practitioners in this country. Of the older authors, Hippocrates, Galen, Avi- cenna, John de Viego, and Ambrose Pare, have all been referred to as describing swellings or tumours i of the nerves * •, which may possibly have been of the same nature with those which we are considering ; but the accounts of them are so vague as to render it im- j possible for us to judge accurately either of their real nature, or of their effects. In the work of IMor- ; gagni, however, De Sedibus et Causis Morbonim, ! there is a case related by Valsalva, which may, I I think, be regarded as one of those at present under : consideration. “ Virgini, aiebat Valsalva, fuisse exiguam ad malleolum extuberantiam, quae ab annis plus sexdecim, tantos saepe crearet dolores, ut non * Alexander, Dissertatio Medico-Chirurgica de Tumoribus ■ Nervorum, Lugduni Batavorum, 1810, p. 14. Descot, Disser- j tation sur les Aflfectione Locales des Nerfs, a Paiis, 1825, p. 208.