Case of malignant fibro-cellular tumour involving the ileum / A. B. Buchanan, M.D.

  • Buchanan, Andrew Bogle.
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[1864], [©1864]
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Credit: Case of malignant fibro-cellular tumour involving the ileum / A. B. Buchanan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE or MAUGNANT FIBRO-CELLULAR TUMOUR INVOLVING THE ILEUM. BT A. B. BUCHANAN, M.D, PHTSIOIAN TO THR DISPENSABY FOB SKIN DISEASES, EOYAL INFIRMARY, HTG, (JRead before the Glasgow Medical Society, and Reprinted from the Glasgow Medical Jouknal, No. XLV., April 1, 1864.) I.—HISTORY OP CASE. James B., aged 21, consulted me once or twice during the summer of 1861, for indigestion accompanied witli tympanitis. He was a thin, pale, cachectic-looking boy, in appearance not more than 15; the second of seven children, all the rest of whom are now living, and the offspring of healthy parents. His heart and lungs were quite sound. He had always been delicate; but the first symptoms of increasing ill-health which attracted his mother's notice, were continually recuning headaches and fits of sickness, especially in the early part of the day; so that for a year before he frequently vomited his meals. The abdomen was tympanitic, with large blue veins coursing over the surface, and some isolated points internally felt hard upon pressure. I did not detect at this period the existence of any circumscribed tumour. The bowels were habitually constipated; and extreme flatulence, especially annoying after meals, was, as the patient complained of no pain in the abdomen, the principal symptom tliat called for treatment. I naturally supposed that the disease I had to deal with was scrofulous adenitis mesenterica. The treat- ment recommended was, therefore, the free use of creaTu (for the patient could not take cod liver oil), syrup of the iodide of iron, and an occasional teaspoonful, after meals, of a mixture of equal parts of camphorated tincture of opium and compound tincture of cardamoms.