An enquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / By William Nisbet.

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An enquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / By William Nisbet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cancerous difpofition. This fungus rifes irregu- larly, preferves a clean healthy appearance for a certain time, and gains alfo a certain height, after which it becomes white at top, gangrene takes place, and it ends in a hollow, or inequality, while the neighbouring parts alfume the fame appear- ance, and fall down in the fame way. 5. To thefe conftant appearances in every Can- cerous mafs, maybe added, lajlly, that of long frnall white filaments, which feem to form a connexion between the tumor and the adjacent parts, and have been termed by the earlier writers, the roots of the Cancer; being evidently lymphatic veffels, whofe fides have been obliterated, by taking on the morbid dilpolition. The above particulars, obferved in the diffec- tion of Cancers in general, will be farther illuf- trated by detailing that of the womb and teflicle, as peculiar glandular organs; and afterwards of the ftomach and liver. 1. Womb, (Uterus.) Dissections of fchirrous wombs fliew an in- creafe of bulk. Their fubftance, when cut into, confifls of a whitifh firm matter, interfered, as elfewhere, with flrong membranous fepta. The internal furface of the womb, difcovers ulceration indifferent parts, from which long ragged proceffes ate fent out. This ulceration is different in its progrefs and extent, and is occafionalty commu- nicated