The anatomy and development of rodent ulcer : a Boylston Medical Prize essay for 1872 / by J. Collins Warren.

  • Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927.
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1872
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    answering to that of the epithelial form of cancer.” These latter appearances he finds only occasion- ally; more frequently he says it is made up of such innocent, microscopic corpuscles, that it has been likened to chronic ulcer of the leg, or to a perfora- ting ulcer of the stomach. He is obliged, there- fore, after all, to fall back on its clinical peculiarities in order to defend his theory of its cancerous na- ture. He endeavors to explain the exemption of the lymphatic glands, by the slowness of its growth, by the innocent nature of its material, and by its relation to the lymphatic vessels. The majority of the French and German writers place it among the Epitheliomas. Lebert * divides epithelial cancer of the face into two varieties, viz.: cancer of the lip, and cancer of the rest of the face, and includes Rodent Ulcer with the latter. Thierschf makes two varieties; the flat, and the deeply infiltrating (tiefgreifende). Ulcers corres- ponding in description to Rodent are described as flat epithelial cancers. He also quotes Sclmh, as giving them this name. Forster J finds in Rodent Ulcer, only the elements of an ordinary granulation tissue. Billroth’s § classification of epithelial can- * Lebert, Traite des Maladies Cance’reuses. t Thiersch, Epithelial Krebs, 1865. J Forster, Pathologische Anatomie. § Billroth, Surgical Pathology.