. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. 2.—An enlarged and encapsuled parathyroid body. It com-pressed the trachea and produced fatal dyspncea. position they mechanically interfere with vital organs, orobstruct functions necessary to the maintenance of tumours, on the other hand, destroy life inwhatever situation they arise. Melanomas illustrate thisvery well. A man 50 years of age came under my ob-servation with an intra-ocular tumour no larger than acherry-stone growing from the uveal tract. The eyeballwas promptly excised,
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. 2.—An enlarged and encapsuled parathyroid body. It com-pressed the trachea and produced fatal dyspncea. position they mechanically interfere with vital organs, orobstruct functions necessary to the maintenance of tumours, on the other hand, destroy life inwhatever situation they arise. Melanomas illustrate thisvery well. A man 50 years of age came under my ob-servation with an intra-ocular tumour no larger than acherry-stone growing from the uveal tract. The eyeballwas promptly excised, and the tumour, which in this casehad a deep black hue, had remained strictly confined to theglobe. Within two years this man died with secondary ENVIRONMENT 7 tumours in the liver and many other organs; his skinturned quite black, melanin appeared daily in the urine,and the free fluid in his belly also contained pigment inabundance. Although it is true that malignant tumours destroylife in whatever situation they arise, nevertheless environ-ment exercises great influence on the r
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