Annals of surgery . tumor, made bymy son. Dr. J. McF. Gaston, Jr., gave for the longitudinal diame-ter five inches; for the transverse diameter, four and a halfinches; for circumference, fifteen and a half inches; showing thegreat reduction in the respective dimensions of two inches, oneand a half inches, and five and a half inches from those of No-vember 18, 1895, being three and a half months. Another measurement, made the 29th of July, 1896, by myson, was as follows: Longitudinal, median line, three and a halfinches; transverse line, at broadest line, three inches; circumfer- TREATMENT OF S
Annals of surgery . tumor, made bymy son. Dr. J. McF. Gaston, Jr., gave for the longitudinal diame-ter five inches; for the transverse diameter, four and a halfinches; for circumference, fifteen and a half inches; showing thegreat reduction in the respective dimensions of two inches, oneand a half inches, and five and a half inches from those of No-vember 18, 1895, being three and a half months. Another measurement, made the 29th of July, 1896, by myson, was as follows: Longitudinal, median line, three and a halfinches; transverse line, at broadest line, three inches; circumfer- TREATMENT OF SARCOMA BY ELECTROLYSIS. 203 €nce, ten and a half inches; making a reduction, in four months,in the respective dimensions, of one and one-half inches, one andone-half inches, and five inches in the previous mobility of the small mass remaining was now very notable,when the tumor was caught up between the thumb and fingers;but there was still an attachment between the tumor and the 1^ .^f^ (/mb/l/cus. O3 PuB/S. Showing measurements of tumor at different dates. parietal wall, and some slight oozing of a serous nature from theouter end of the incision. This appeared to discharge from thesubstance of the tumor, and indicates persistent degenerationin it. The general health of the patient has very materially im- ao4 /• McFADDEN GASTON. proved, and having undergone examination at different periodssince being under my care by Drs. Hunter McGuire, J. B. , Arch and J. C. Avery, they all coincided in the favor-able progress of the case. Upon furnishing the details of my treatment in this caseto Dr. G. Betton Massey he expressed his gratification at mysuccess, and regards it as a confirmation of the claims madein his paper, to which I have referred, and also in a previousone read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society,January 9, 1895. He infers correctly that I had not seenthe earlier paper, thus afTording another instance of the inde-pendent conception
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