Observations on neuroma, with cases and histories of the disease.

  • Wood, William, 1783-1858.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: Observations on neuroma, with cases and histories of the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS ON NEUROMA, WITH CASES AND HISTORIES OF THE DISEASE. By William Wood, Fellow of the Royal College of Sur¬ geons, and F.R. S. E. The term Neuroma was first applied, by Odier ol Geneva, to tumours formed by diseased enlarge¬ ments of the nerves *. In a communication, lately submitted to the So¬ ciety, I stated the reasons which induced me to think that the small lenticular or pisiform tumours, occasionally met with in the subcutaneous cellular substance, and which are generally believed to be formed by a morbid increase in size of a portion of one of the smaller branches of the subcutaneous nerves, should be treated of separately, and should be considered as forming a distinct variety, at least, of disease, from the deeper seated tumours of larger * Manuel de Medecine-Pratique, &c. Par Louis Odier, Doo teur et Prof, en Medecine, he. he. A Geneve, 1811. P. 362, A