A case of epithelioma of the scrotum occurring in a tarworker / by D'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.
Date:
1894
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Credit: A case of epithelioma of the scrotum occurring in a tarworker / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Pathological Society of London' 1894. fr.llS A case of epithelioma of the scrotum occurring in a iarworker. By D'Aect Power, M.B. [From the conjoint Laboratories of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, London, and Surgeons, England.] mHE subject of chronic carcinoma occurring in tarworkers has L received very careful attention from Mr. Butlin, who has detailed all that was known about it in the third lecture which he delivered in 1892 as Professor of Pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The bibliography of the subject is fully given in the printed lecture (' British Medical Journal,' vol. ii, 1892, p. 68). The disease, however, is a rare one, and appears to be getting rarer as masters and workmen recognise more fully the irritating properties of gas tar and take increasing pains to lessen its evil effects upon the skin. It therefore appears worth while to record the present case, especially as I cannot ascertain that any instance of tarworkers' cancer has hitherto been brought under the notice of this Society. I am indebted to Mr. Butlin for permission to make a minute examination of the cancer. I was anxious to find out whether any effect would follow its inoculation upon an irritated mucous mem- brane, so he kindly permitted me to have the ulcerated mass imme- diately after its removal from the body. The history of the case is shortly as follows: W. N—, aged 47, a barge-builder, was admitted into St. Bartholomew's Hos- pital on May 3rd, 1893, under the care of Mr. Butlin, for the removal of a typical epitheliomatous ulcer situated upon the lower and front part of the scrotum. The ulcer began as a small dry sore in November, 1892, and at the time of his admission to the hospital there was a slight enlargement of one lymphatic gland in his left groin. The patient states that in the course of bis occupation of building barges be often uses boiling tar, and that bis clothes are frequently soaked through with it. The pitch is always obtained from the gasworks, and he has never used wood-tar. There are no warts on his skin, though there are several on the unaffected part of his scrotum. He takes a bath about once a fortnight. He does