Molluscum fibrosum and large pendulous fibroma : removal of growth, recovery / by Henry A. Lediard.

  • Lediard, Henry Ambrose, 1847-1932.
Date:
[1887]
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Credit: Molluscum fibrosum and large pendulous fibroma : removal of growth, recovery / by Henry A. Lediard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    MOLLUSCUM FIBROSUM AND LARGE PENDULOUS FIBROMA. John C , aged twenty-nine, labourer in a timber yard, was admitted into the Cumberland Infirmary on March 17th, 1880. The patient has never been what is called “quick,” and his head has always been very large in proportion to his body, lie has had none but ordinary illnesses, with the exception of bronchitis, from which he suffered for the pre- vious three months. lie has had from birth a tumour over the left hip, which continued to grow till he was twenty- four, when it ceased growing. In addition to this, he has developed numerous small tumours on various parts of the body, and he has never had any pain except when some of them have suppurated ; but this has not occurred often. On admission the patient was considerably emaciated and suffering from chronic bronchitis. Studding the upper two- thirds of his body were several tumours varying in size from a split pea to a chestnut, with the exception of the