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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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The disease had in this case originated in the scar of a gunshot wound received during the Civil War, and had destroyed the side of the nose, the eye, the ear, the cheek, including the corresponding half of the upper and lower lips.
Harlan reports a most extraordinary epithelioma of the orbit in a boy of about five years.

It followed enucleation, and attained the size depicted in a few months.
Sarcomata, if allowed full progress, may attain great size.

Plate 10 shows an enormous sarcoma of the buttocks in an adult negro.

Fascial sarcomata are often seen of immense size.

Senn shows a tumor of this variety which was situated between the scapulae.
Schwimmer records a curious case of universal small sarcomata over the whole body of a teacher of the age of twenty-one, in the Hungarian lowlands.


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