Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de scirrho et carcinomate ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Franciscus Hopkins, Hibernus.

  • Hopkins, Francis.
Date:
1777
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    *5 florae parti finem imponamus, alterius cancri fpeciei mentionem faciamus ; ubi, nullo prae- cunte fcirrho, nihilominus carcinoma exoritur. Hoc fub nares, vel circa os, frequentius accidit. Talis affedionis plenam et accuratam tradidit hiftoriam Dominus Hili chirurgus Dumfrifienfis: c There is another fpecies of cancer/ ait Hili c l^hich never rifes above the fkin, or thrufls out ( any fungus, but eats or confumes the neighbour- c ing parts. At firfl fight, this may be miftaken c for an herpes exedens. But the herpes is al- c ways compofed of a number of fpots, and makes c a very rapid progrefs; whereas, in this fpecies, 6 there is never more than a fingle fpot; and its • / 4 progrefs is more jflow and gradual. It firfl ap- 6 pears like a thick fcale, which is generally oc- 6 cafioned by too much heat applied to the fkin, 6 as by meafling, or forne other accident. After c forne time, the fcale cafls off, and leaves the fkin 4 entire, excepting a fewfmail mealyfcales which c are left behind. Ttiefe are fucceeded by a thick- 6 er andlarger fcale, which, after cafling oft and c renewing feverai times, at long intervals, at laft £ turns into a crufty fcab, After this fcab comes ‘ off, ■ - f ■ * Cafes in Surgery, p, 31,