Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . mjjjjjd^/^ WlMMaMMlMdlijUf^f^^^^^S Fig- 303 cases where the surgeon thinks he has removed a morbid growth, he reallyleaves multitudes of germs behind which continue to propagate the Handyside removed the inferior extremity of a boy at the hip joint, inJune 1843, for cancer of the femur. I carefully examined a small portionof one of the upper flaps, which was subsequently cut away, on observing apiece of the tumor attached to it, and found all the muscles fatty andinfiltrated with young cancer cells (Fig. 304). Iu short,
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . mjjjjjd^/^ WlMMaMMlMdlijUf^f^^^^^S Fig- 303 cases where the surgeon thinks he has removed a morbid growth, he reallyleaves multitudes of germs behind which continue to propagate the Handyside removed the inferior extremity of a boy at the hip joint, inJune 1843, for cancer of the femur. I carefully examined a small portionof one of the upper flaps, which was subsequently cut away, on observing apiece of the tumor attached to it, and found all the muscles fatty andinfiltrated with young cancer cells (Fig. 304). Iu short, all the muscleswhich formed both flaps were already cancerous, and I told the operatorthat the disease would probably return in the stump The incisions healed. Fig. 304. Fig. 305. favorably, but in a few months cancerous nodules appeared not only inthe cicatrix but in other places, and caused death.* I have also seenthe same mode of propagation in nerves, as has been figured in muscles * Cancerous and Cancroid Growths, p. 103. Fig. 303. Fibre of the sterno-mastoid muscle, in the neighborhood of a cancerousgrowth, partly transformed into fibres, with masses of young cancer-cells. Thisfigure, published by me fifteen years ago, exhibits all the facts subsequently seen bythe so-called cell pathologists. I need scarcely point out to the experienced observerhow an imaginative histologist, when copying such an appearance, might—bystrengthening the outlines of those fibres which surround the groups of nuclei—makethe whole resemble endogenous cell growth. Fig. 304. Fasciculi of muscle, forming the flap in an amputation of the thigh,already infiltrated with young cancer cells. «, The latter, after the addition of aceticacid. Fig. 3CC. Granules, n
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