On the pain in pelvic cancer and its relief by morphia : illustrated by fifty cases / by Francis Henry Champneys.

  • Champneys, Francis Henry, Sir, 1848-1930.
Date:
1881
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Credit: On the pain in pelvic cancer and its relief by morphia : illustrated by fifty cases / by Francis Henry Champneys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    since they offered some special feature of interest, but I have not included them in any statistics. Although the notes which I have taken deal with other points, I have thought it best to confine myself in this com- munication to the subject of pain (including therein one or two other nervous phenomena) and its treatment by morphia; other points I hope to deal with hereafter. The dates range from March, 1878, to November, 1879. The cases them- selves are given in an appendix. From them any statements may be confirmed or disproved.^ The ages of the patients ranged from twenty-four up to sixty-four; the average age was forty-three. Table I. Between 20 and 30 . , , .5 30 and 40 . . . .15 40 and 50 . . . .15 50 and 60 . . . . 10 60 and 70 . . . .5 70 . . . . 0 50 The equality in numbers between the periods thirty to forty and forty to fifty is not according to the general rule that cancer is most frequent in the period forty to fifty. About this, as it does not directly concern the subject in hand, I shall say no more. The frequency of the occurrence of pain of some sort or another as the first symptom, compared with haemorrhage or discharge, is shown in the following table. Table 2.—First symptom. Pain . . . . . in 13 cases, or 26 per cent. „ with hsemorrliage . . in 8 or 16 „ Hsemorrhage »^ . . . in 8 or 16 „ Discharsfe, offensive in 5 cases 7 . ^. -, . f == in 7 „ or 14 „ not offensive m 2 cases } Omitted for want of space.