Observations on some tumours of the mouth and jaws / by Robert Liston.

Date:
1836
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Credit: Observations on some tumours of the mouth and jaws / by Robert Liston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pale, soft, and homogeneous structure then, as at the present time. Believe me to remain, my dear Sir, Yours, very faithfully, G. James, Late House Surgeon of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmarj'. R. LisTONj Esq. The morbid grovi^th in this case had not attained any very large size. Its structure is decidedly brain- lite, presenting a smooth, greasy section. At the up- per part, towards the alveolar processes, it is broken up and bloody-looking, more especially at that part attached to the roots of the decayed molar tooth. I should be inclined to think, both from the history of the case, and from the morbid appearances, that the disease had commenced at this point, and ex- tended to the lining membrane of the cavity, which it now fully occupies. That the progress and termi- nation of this case, had not the diseased mass been timeously removed, would have been most unfavour- able, cannot for an instant be doubted, and the pa- tient has yet to congratulate himself that no repro- duction of the tumour has taken place*. This dis- ease is perhaps more frequently met with in persons of the middle period of life, yet this is not the only case I have vntnessed in young subjects. One of the most rapidly malignant and frightful cases I have met with, was in the person of a young midshipman, of thirteen or fourteen years; the tumours filled the * A preparation of the morbid growth, which was exhibited to the Meeting, is above referred to by the author.—Sec.R.M.C.S.L.
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