Large pendulous tumor from the cheek, of many years growth, in a gentleman advanced in years, removed by operation / by E. L. Hussey.

Date:
1877
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Credit: Large pendulous tumor from the cheek, of many years growth, in a gentleman advanced in years, removed by operation / by E. L. Hussey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    a blow upon the swelling, or some slight injury to the prominent part. About 40 years ago, when the Tumor had become large enough to attract his own attention and that of his friends, he consulted a Medical Practitioner. From him he learned that the swelling could not be dispersed; and that the only means of removal was by a Surgical operation. He was alarmed by some undefined fear of the loss of blood attending an operation, and the length of time required for recovery : and he did not afterwards seek other advice. In 1846 I saw him for the first time, — meeting him in company at the house of a relation. At that time the Tumor was in front of the ear, upon the parotid gland, or a little below the zygoma. To the best of my recol- lection, it was about 2 inches long in a transverse direction, and in its thickest part it projected about an inch from the general surface of the cheek, being partly covered by the hair of the whisker. During the following 12 years the Tumor increased slowly in size, falling or gravitating downwards to\vard the angle of the jaw. His brother, who was a member of our Profession, observed with anxiety the steady in- crease in size, and often mentioned it, in conversation with me and other professional friends ; but the patient himself never referred to the subject. In 1858 he left Oxford, where he had resided for about 35 years, — first as a Student, and afterwards as Fellow and Tutor of a College, and Incumbent of one of the largest parishes in the City, — and went to live in a village in the country, with the charge of a small Church and parish. It seemed to me, and to his friends generally, that the Tumor increased in size more rapidly after this change of residence and new mode of life. In October 1868 he suffered from an attack of pain,