Observations on painful subcutaneous tubercle : with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood.

  • Wood, William, 1783-1858.
Date:
[1828?]
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Credit: Observations on painful subcutaneous tubercle : with cases and histories of the disease / by William Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    without exquisite pain, grew immediately easy, walked to his bed without any complaint, and was soon cured Camper’s desciiption of the tubercle is in the following terms : “ Non raro in nervis cutaneis % tubercula parva ac dura observantur, quae vera gan- glia sunt, pisi magnitudinem licet non excedant; dies tamen noctesque acutissimis lancinantibus do- loribus aegros torquent: externis remediis non ce- dunt, scalpello igitur ea attingere oportet. Frane- querae ex cubito foeminae tale, plaga facta, sustuli, quod ramo musculo-cutanei nervi adhaerebat: post operationem optime se habuit. In subcutaneis ner- vis frequenter esse videntur. Amstelaedami simile ganglium genu mulieris occupans, eodem modo sanari curavi. In viris plus semel ea vidi: albicant intus, cartilagineae duritiae sunt, renitentia, et intra nervorum tunicas sedem habent f.” I gave a full account, also, of a very interesting case described by Dr Bisset of two cases pub- lished by Mr John Pearson and I alluded to two additional cases which had been met with here, with the history of one of which I had been favoured by my late respected friend Dr William Brown; and the other T had seen along with my friend Mr Newbigging. * Cheselden’s Anatomy, 10th Edition, p. 136. f Camper, Demonstrationum Anatomico-Pathologicarum Liber Primus, p. 11. Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. iii. p. 58. § Medical Facts and Observations, vol. vi. p. 96.