FUNGUS. 
ial t, likewife, even when done early, mutt always be very 
uncertain, fince moft of the attempts to extirpate fungus 
hematodes in other fituations have for the moft part proved 
unfuccefsful, in confequence of r the difeafe pies 3 in a 
more ee and fatal form. 
n his &€ Pradtical CBfervations in Sur rgery, 
has related ievera cafes in, ee the female a is hated 
0 hav n the feat. o ungus hematode 
efled do bts about the ie of the 
diftemper in the inftances adduced by the ance: writer. 
However, we are inclined to think, that the difeafe was 
fungus hematodes, fomewhat diverfified from the commo 
charaéter of. the. complaint, by-reafon of, the difference of 
segs in which it -was, fituated.. Thus, in the oa 
li 
Wardrop has expre 
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n 
ts out ; and yet Mr. 
gave way; a dark-coloured fubftance 
arole.i in the hie and blood began - ooze out of the 
to take place 
age was not {topped by a coagulum 
Mr. Hey removed a large oval piece of the difeafed in- 
teguments, aay with a view of {fupprefling the bleeding, 
with ityptics. 
- The fungous fubftance, making the greater part of the 
tumour, bore refemblance to that of a ungus hematodes 
e 
d 
of the integuments, which a great 
Indeed, the sick jel fur- 
ungus was compofed of thefe 
y the p ectoral 
{ponge. 
mufeley and a ail is turpentine to the reft of the cavity. 
n with a circular bandage. 
ati 
oad deal of blood a been loft. See Practical Obferva- 
tions in Surgery, p. 254. 
. We need o ae add our own anes that this cafe feemsto 
merit ie name of fun matodcs, and that t evel 
chance which oe ara had of life depended upon t 
earlier attempt to cut away every particle of the difeafe. 
When this opportunity had paffed away, perhaps it might 
have been. moft prudent not to have employed the knife at 
e 
ein mour is, from 
rom Pa whenever the ance 
a tained in a perfect capfule. 
all, Blech pd as the only end of doing fo feems to have 
bee at of apply. ying a irritating fty ptic applications. 
reader is already apprifed, > the ceca hanes 
pa ie generally been confound ‘carcinoma af- 
tions. Hence, it feems proper, ae taking our ie 
of this fubje&, to, notice - principal differences between 
_ This taf feems yet ne 
ry; for, notwithftand fe) ay be eafily 
difcriminated by certain amber it is acknowledged, 
that in fome circumftances exift » hu 
the progrefs of = two dileates, efpecially in the early flage, 
is gener: ally fow. When ulceration happens, a thin’ ea 
ichor is difcharged, inftead of purulent aaa and; oc 
foal, bot mal adies are attended wit € leo 
mages 
a the lymphat th b 
tion; and b e€ apt to involve in the bid ravage 
every kind of ftru€ture which may ha to be ‘near. 
Lattly, both difeafes frequently affect at once feveral parts 
thefe circumftances have been noticed © 
by Mr. Wardro 
The fame gentleman a haldemie ae a a tu- 
, hard, i 
preffible, and is peri of ts nai fabllancess ‘one lence. 
and. fib 
matter is fometimes femi-tran {parent, and of a blueifh colour, 
differing fomewhat, however, in its appearances in different- 
cafes. 
times condenfes the furrounding cellular fubftance, fo as to. 
form a kind of capfule, and a eee a circumfcribed appear- 
When a {cirrhous {welling ulcerates, a thin ichor is dif- 
charged, and a good deal of the hard fibrous fubftance is-de- 
{troyed by the ulceration, and the tumour is leffened. The 
ifeafe continues to {fpread by ulceration, other parts be-- 
come affected, and the patient dies from the increafed 
quantity of morbid ravages arid the irritation on the con-- 
ftitut 
Sometimes, though st pyiihen ed a féfrhus ha s ul-- 
cerated, it emits a fun ofa hard texture. Such 
excrefcence, however, 18 “tfel at “lat deitroyed by the ul- 
ceration. It is curious alfo, that cancerous fores often ie 
on, for a fhort time, at a particular part, an appearance of. 
a crane 
othe er han d, s Mr. War 
ngs furface, and a falfe feel of a ea 
eneral quit mfcribed, being -con- 
The “fabftance of ‘the tumour, 
inftead of being for the moft part hard, confifts of a foft,. 
pulpy, ‘medullary matter, which readily mixes with water. 
procefs, as in S b is emitted, and the 
whole fwelling feems to grow with increafed rapidit 
1 obferve, that s difeaies 
moft frequently met with in perfons who are conti eae 
advanced in life; that fungus hematodes: generally af-- 
fits young {ubjects ; and that the latter: diftemper has been : 
obferved in the liver, {pleen, kidney, and lungs, parts in: 
which true cancer has never yet been remarked.. Such: 
readers as defire to be particularly acquaes with the fub-- 
jet of fungus ae may learn all that. is yet known. 
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