Contribution to the study of non-cancerous tumours of the breast / by Charles Monod ; translated from the Archives gén. de médecine, January, 1875, by Charles Cullingworth ; to which is appended an account of an ovarian cyst in an infant newly born, by Charles J. Cullingworth.

  • Monod, Charles Edmond, 1843-1921.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Contribution to the study of non-cancerous tumours of the breast / by Charles Monod ; translated from the Archives gén. de médecine, January, 1875, by Charles Cullingworth ; to which is appended an account of an ovarian cyst in an infant newly born, by Charles J. Cullingworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This persistence of the gland-tissue explains the confu- sion into which many authors have been led, and the numerous cases described under the title of adenomata of the breast. We shall endeavour to show that the charac- teristics of these tumours must be sought for, not in the glandular element, always more or less perverted, ^t in the intermediate tissue ; and that the exact analysis of that tissue^albite permits us to define their nature with precision. We are aware that this mode of meeting the question before us is not new, and has been already partially set forth in previous publications. Recent discussions, however, having shown that it was far from being sufficiently known and popularized, we have thought that it might perhaps be useful to take advantage of our personal researches, in order to bring it once more into prominence. Non-cancerous tumours of the breast, clinically very different from each other, present certain common anatomical characters which allow of their being brought together, and show, on the other hand, important differences which justify the recognition of a certain number of varieties amongst them. Their physical characters are very variable, and in no way help to place them in distinct categories. It will be sufficient to remember in fact, that they include the largest and the smallest breast-tumours; that their consistence, which generally reaches neither the softness of encephaloid, nor the hardness of scirrhus, may for the rest vary con- siderably ; that their form is still less characteristic. Never- theless, to the unaided eye, they all present one character in common, which has not escaped careful observers. The fundamental tissue of the tumour, even when it appears at first dense and of homogeneous structure, is tra- versed by numerous clefts and furrows : some scarcely appre- ciable by the unaided eye ; others quite visible and admitting a probe easily ; others again, still more considerable, may open out into actual cavities of a cystic appearance, and of an elongated or rounded form. It is usually easy to make out that these cavities communicate with each other here and there ; others, on the contrary, appear completely isolated. The largest often contain in their interior a mamillated B 2