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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX A. Brief Report Of All The Cases Of BreastCarcinoma In The Cancer Hospital On Adgust 24th, 1883; Showing Their Causation. Case 1. Recurrent scirrhus of right breast.--Elizabeth T., aged 46; married; three children. No family history of cancer; no injury. Has had much mental trouble for past three years; about six months before appearance of tumour had great anxiety and loss of sleep at night, owing to misfortune of relative. The breast was excised, ttvo and a half years ago, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; disease recurred six mouths since; now extensive deposit in axillary glands, under and around the cicatrix, with numerous nodules in the skin. Case 2. Scirrhus of left breast--duration two years.--Ellen T., aged 60; married; seven children; straitened circumstances; much mental trouble and hard work preceding appearance of tumour--death of husband and daughter. No family history of cancer; no injury. Case 3. Recurrent seirrhus of left breast--duration two years.--Catherine L., aged 60; married; two children. No family history; no injury. Much mental trouble and worry for years; sister died five years ago. Has since undergone two operations. Case 4. Seirrhus of right breast--duration sixteen months.--Laura J., aged 27; single; governess. No cancerous family history; no injury. At first strenuously denied the existence of any debilitating cause, illness, hard work, mental depression, or the like. After repeated questioning it was elicited that her father had been dead several years; that her mother had sustained a great reverse of fortune, when she herself was forced to take a situation, as governess, at Brussels. She thinks she had been here about a year before she noticed the tumour. There are five sisters. The patient is of emaciated, delicate ...
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