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

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    i attacked by the disease. The bones of the face, even, are not spared in the later stages, and frightful deformities result, which have earned for it the significant names given above. Curiously enough, the lymphatic glands through all this remain untouched. Similar ulcers have been reported as occurring on the breast, and ex- ternal genital organs, but no very reliable accounts of such cases are to be found. Statistics show that there is very little difference to be observed in regard to sex, though nearly all of the cases which have come under the observation of the writer happen to have been males. In Holmes* Surgerv * the disease is treated of under “ ulcers.” This writer finds many points in which it resembles lupus, — yet its difference is proved, he says, among other distinctions, by its occurring as generally in the later half of life, as lupus does in the earlier and by its affinity with cancer, and not with struma. The minute anat- omy is not spoken of. Pagetf in his article on Rodent Ulcer says: “It has been confounded by many, with different forms of cancer, yet it is distinct from them in structure, as well as in history, and had better be * Holmes’ Surgery, i. 210. t Paget’s Surgical Pathology, edition of 1870.