The diseases of the breast, and their treatment / by John Birkett.

  • Birkett, John, 1815-1904.
Date:
1850
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Credit: The diseases of the breast, and their treatment / by John Birkett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the section. Some large sinus-like veins traversed the largest growth. Very little adipose tissue was observable. When minutely examined, the masses were composed of the csccal terminations of the gland tissue, united together by well-formed fibre tissue. The usual epithelium filled these csecal termina- tions. These tumors are in the Museum at Guy's Hospital. Case LXIII.—Dr. H. Larrey presented to the Academy of Medicine at Paris, a fibrous tumor of the breast, removed from a single lady above forty years of age. It was stated to have commenced fifteen years before the operation for its removal. The entire mammary gland was involved in the tumor. The whole mass was removed by excision, and when examined by M. Cruveilhier he declared that it was the type of the most complete kind of the fibrous tumors of the breast. M. Mandl then examined the tumor, and found that it was composed of an abundant fibrous tissue, and of the mammary gland. The fibre tissue was composed of fibres in different stages of develop- ment j they surrounded the csecal terminations of the mammary gland, which were recognizable, and free from cancerous degene- ration.—Bulletin de VAcad. Nat. de Med. xiii. 1439. Case LXIY.—An unmarried healthy countrywoman, set. 30, applied to the late Mr. Key on account of a swelling in the axillary region of the right breast. It had been increasing three years. Mr. Key removed the entire organ, nipple, and a por- tion of skin. The mammary gland was not in a very perfect state of nutrition, being atrophied in parts and in others pre- senting minute cysts and vesicles. The ducts were pervious in all parts. A new growth had formed upon the surface of more than half of the axillary region of the gland; it was very irre- gular, lobulated, nodulated, firm, and resisting. The whole was surrounded by adipose tissue, and the skin was unaffected.