The campaign against cancer : educational, experimental and clinical / by William Seaman Bainbridge.

  • Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The campaign against cancer : educational, experimental and clinical / by William Seaman Bainbridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nodule itself, but of sections taken along the healthy tissue. Microscopic examination of the nodule verified the clinical diagnosis. No cancer cells were found in the remainder of the wedge-shaped section of tissue, until near the very apex of the wedge was reached. There a nest of suspicious cells was found, and a day later a longer angle was made by the removal of another small section at the apex of the wedge-shaped incision. Early and radical removal in this case Fig. 22-a. W. S. Ulcer of the tongue at tip and on superior surface, with leucoplakia. Fig. 22-b. W. S. After treatment. (Cast.) has been followed by freedom from recur¬ rence for four years. Case XX.—E. S., male, aged 42. Car¬ cinoma of tongue, advanced stage. Abso¬ lutely negative history regarding lues. Patient has been an excessive smoker, al¬ ways holding the cigar on the right side of the mouth. A number of years previous to consulting us he had first noticed a small sore on the dorsum of the tongue, half an inch from the right side and one and a half inches back. This would come and go, and was treated by diverse methods—nitrate of silver, anti-syphilitic treatment (a positive diagnosis of syphilis having been made by the physician then in charge), X-ray, mixed treatment, etc. The growth was cut into by a dermatologist for the purpose of taking a section for microscopic study, and the re¬ port rendered that it was non-malignant. After going from one physician to another Fig. 23. J. B. C. Two small spots of inflam¬ mation on dorsum of tongue near edge and tip. .(Cast.) Fig. 24. L. J. R. Epithelioma of tip of tongue early stage (water-color sketch). without benefit the patient consulted Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, by whom he was referred to us. Fig. 25, photographic reproduction of water-coloring drawing of the exact con¬ dition, shows the tongue at this time. The mouth was in a very fetid condition and the glands of the right side of the neck were involved. The disease was too far advanced for reasonable hope of perfect cure, with no