Wisconsin medical recorder . fying theorists. MEDULLARY CANCER ByEZ™dovHE«L?-D In 1886 when I first located in Hal-stead I was called to see a woman agedtwenty-two years, mother of two chil-dren. This woman had been a suffererfrom early girlhood. When she firststarted to school a lameness wasnoticed and a limp on upper third ofrighl femur was felt. Her parentscounseled different doctors, and tookher to the Surgical Institute, Indian-apolis, Indiana, that was quite prom-inent in this country forty years agobut the growth continued and attwenty-two years of age a tumor meas-uring forty-four inch
Wisconsin medical recorder . fying theorists. MEDULLARY CANCER ByEZ™dovHE«L?-D In 1886 when I first located in Hal-stead I was called to see a woman agedtwenty-two years, mother of two chil-dren. This woman had been a suffererfrom early girlhood. When she firststarted to school a lameness wasnoticed and a limp on upper third ofrighl femur was felt. Her parentscounseled different doctors, and tookher to the Surgical Institute, Indian-apolis, Indiana, that was quite prom-inent in this country forty years agobut the growth continued and attwenty-two years of age a tumor meas-uring forty-four inches around the up-per part of right leg. invaded thehip joint and lapped over into the rightgroin, she was poor and emaciated,her whole body bad been consumed tobuild and furnish material for thegreat tumor that bad fastened itself toher. The skin of this tumor differed\i-vy little from flu; rest of the tumor was undulated to some ex- tent. In a short time after I first sawthis case a small black spot made its ap-. pearance n the outer and right side oftumor. This gangrene spread and asloughing commenced, a watery dis- WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 207 charge -oozed from this opening. I hadan oilcloth ordered and placed undertumor and body of the woman, turnedup the outer side of oil cloth to makea trough to carry this fluid away; ele-vated the head of the bed and had apint to a quart of fluid drained fromthis tumor every twenty-four hours;the stench became almost and coffee were burned in theroom to counteract this awful opening became so large I couldhave put my head into it. One day the nurse was placing a bed-pan under the patient—the femoralartery broke and life was soon goneand the great sufferer was relieved. I held a post mortem and cut out theupper third of femur, the joint was alleaten up or so fragile that the partswould not hold together. In gettinginto the bone I took a common smallfire shovel and scooped out a chamber-full
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