Fatal cancerous tumor on the face of a gentleman from Birmingham. Grew from a small speck to a large pulsating, bleeding tumor over nine years. According to doctor George Freer, the patient declined treatment and died of hemorrhagy. Copperplate engraving by Edward Mitchell after an illustration by John Bell from his own Principles of Surgery, as they Relate to Wounds, Ulcers and Fistulas, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1815.

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