Horizontal arrangement, recumbent woman. Enormous malignant tumor of chest wall
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Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
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Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Woman standing. Large malignant tumorous growth of abdomen and genitalia, enlarged stomach from fluids - advanced case
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Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Woman seated, facing viewer's right. Growth of right side of the abdominal wall
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Case No. 48704
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Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
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Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Abdomen, Tumors, and Sick persons
Woman, seated on simple bench. Large ulcerating tumor on left breast. She appears to be missing her right forearm
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Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
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Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Woman with huge, green ulcerating lesion on the left breast
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Case No. 36234 and Kwan Shí
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Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Sixteenth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital for the Year 1850 and 1851, printed at the office of the Chinese Repository, p. 21: No. 36234, July 1st, 1850. Steatomatous tumor, two feet and more in circumference. Kwan Shí, aged 25, of the district of Pwanyü, had a tumor which originated above the clavicle near the left shoulder. When she presented herself at the Hospital, this large tumor which hung pendulous over the breast and reached to the umbilicus, presented a broad and deeply ulcerated surface, and was exceedingly offensive. In consequence of her having become a loathsome companion, she had been cast off by her unfeeling husband, and compelled to seek refuge under her paternal roof; her mother accompanied her to the Hospital. With no great delay, chloroform was administered. She became almost instantaneously insensible, and in the presence of several gentlemen the tumor was successfully removed. During the operation she seemed as if in a quiet sleep, and remained so some minutes after the arteries were tied and the sutures applied, when on being spoken to, she awoke, and the natural expression to her countenance, she glances her eyes downwards, and with a smile remarked “I do not see the tumor!” the same afternoon she was able to walk the chamber. The recovery was speedy and perfect, and it is being reported that her husband has again welcomed her to his house., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Name):
Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Woman with serene face seated on bed with cushion, facing viewer's right - full length. Tumor of the right breast, eating through other body parts
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Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Woman standing, primarily naked. Large, lobulated tumor of the right breast
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Case No. 48974 and Ho She
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Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., “Report of 1848, No. 28974 (no such case number in the Fifteenth report, Chinese Repository, vol. 11, 1850).", “Ho She. Scirrhous Breast. 6 years tumor two feet in circumference extending nearly to the hip. Breast traversed by large veins. Surface red and glossy. Her pallid expression indicated great pain and long continued suffering. Tumor after removal weighed ten pounds.”, and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
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Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Woman with "Preternatural development of the left mamma."
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Case No. 5583 and Kwan Meiurh
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Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Ninth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton for the quarterly term ending in December 31st, 1838. Chinese Repository, vol. 7. 1838-1839, p. 103-104: No. 5583, June 14th, Diseased breast, Kwan Meiurh from Kaouming, 45 years old, a silk embroiderer, had a preternatural development of the left mamma, which commenced two years ago. Six months before she came to the hospital she called a Chinese physician who applied to it a succession of plasters. Soon after the integument ulcerated and the gland protruded, she was much emaciated and the breast, one third as large as her head, came down as low as the umbilicus, when she stood up and laid upon her arm in the recumbent posture, presenting a large raw surface exuding blood and the natural secretion of the gland as it was irritated by the clothes. At various points were seen the lacteal ducts greatly enlarged. (...) The disease was strictly local. The patient justly remarked “The sooner it was removed the better” (...) on the 20th of June the breast was removed. In the morning before the operation the patient being asked if she feared it replied in the negative that “now if I turn to the right hand or to the left, incline forward or backward, I am in pain but in cutting off my breast is but a single pang.” The composed and confiding manner in which she came to the operation could not escape the notice of the gentlemen who were present. Apparently no child ever lay in the arms of its parent with more confidence of safety than this woman lay upon the operation table under the knife of a foreigner. In two and a half minutes the breast was extirpated; no artery required a ligature. The patient just moved her lips as a small remaining portion of the gland was dissected out; but regained the natural expression of her countenance before she was carried from the table. No fever followed (...). The third day the patient was walking from room to room, happy in her deliverance from so gloomy a prospect, and such suffering as the disease and the maltreatment it had received, occasioned. She is most rapidly recovering., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Name):
Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Woman with a thin, drawn face. Ulcerating tumor of the left breast
Alternative Title:
Case No. 50000 and Kwan Meiurh
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Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Name):
Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Breast, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Fourth Report, Chinese Repository, vol. 5, 1836-1837, p. 329-331: No 2152: Amputation of the Shoulder-Joint. Absorption of the os humeri and enlargement of the arm. Po Ashing, aged 23, entered the hospital on the 3rd of November. Six years since, he fell from a house and broke the humerus of the left arm, half way from the elbow to the shoulder, the lower portion passing upwards and backwards. Union so far took place as to render the arm serviceable, till six months since, in a crowd, at a “sing song” it was again broken. From that time, according to the statement, the arm gradually became larger, till it had attained its present enormous size. Beside of being painful, the weight of it drew him quite one side; at several places it seemed ready to burst; the skin was bright and glistering, and the veins passing over it were numerous and much enlarged. There was no doubt of it containing fluid, and though no pulsation could be felt, apprehensions were entertained that the tumor might be of an aneurismal nature. November 14th, assisted by Messrs. Cox, Cullen, Jardine and Bonsall, I punctured the arm, supposing that it might possibly contain pus, and that the necessity of amputation might be avoided; yet prepared if disappointed in this, to remove the arm. On opening the abscess, a dark greenish fluid escaped, with considerable force but soon became darker and more bloody. Sixteen ounces were first discharged, but the character of the fluid was not decisive. In the hope that the fluid was from some small vein, divided by the incision, and that there was deep-seated pus, the lancet was reentered nearly its whole length, but the same discharge continued with a similar proportion of venous blood: thirty-two ounces in all were discharged, and the aperture closed. All were agreed that the only chance of life was in the removal of the arm; but the exhaustion of the patient and the absence of his father induced us to postpone the operation until the next day, unless subsequent symptoms forbade. At 3 o’clock PM it appeared that the tumor, which had been diminished by opening it, had attained more than its former size, and supposing that the vein, which had been opened was emptying itself into the tumor, and that there could be no safe delay, the operation would have been performed immediately but for the absence of the patient’s friends. The next morning (Nov. 15th) the circumference was still but thirty inches, the integument having reached its maximum of distension, it appeared that the fluid was insinuating itself beneath the integument about the shoulder joint, increasing the difficulty and hazard of the amputation. It proved, however, to be mere tumefaction. The father and friends of the patient had come, and given the agreement liable to fatal terminations; and the patient had recovered very much from his previous exhaustion., At 11 A.M. the gentlemen present the preceding day were ready and everything was prepared for the amputation. The patient was seated supported around the waist by a sheet; the tourniquet was applied, also the subclavian artery secured by an assistant; a single flap was formed as recommended by Liston, the extent of the disease not admitting the use of the catlin as practiced by Cooper. With a large scalpel two incisions were made, commencing on either side of the acromion process and meeting of the origin of the deltoid muscle, which was immediately dissected up: the capsular ligament divided, the head of the humerus turned out of the socket, and another stroke of the knife upwards, dissevered the arm from the body. The time did not exceed a minute, from the application of the scalpel till the arm was laid upon the floor; the patient was then upon a bed, and the pressure upon the artery removed. An excellent flap was formed, and dressings were applied as usual. Afterwards the patient threw up the brandy and water and pother medicines. The best representation of the arm after the amputation, so far as shape is concerned, is that of a large ham of bacon. It weighed about 16 catties, equal to 21 pounds. Opening the arm at the place where it was punctured the preceding day, a dark coffee-colored fluid gushed put. (...) Opening other cavities, there was a similar discharge and a quantity of matter resembling putrid crassamentum, of a light purplish color, or like the disorganized lungs of persons who have died of pulmonary consumption. (...)The bone was entirely absorbed, except an inch of each extremity. (...) At the head of the humerus it appeared, till we discovered the absorption of the whole bone, as if nature had formed a new joint. (...) The muscles were much diseased (...) From the elbow downward, the muscles were perfect. The forearm was oedematous, and considerable adipose substance, was found under the integument. All who were present pronounced the case the most remarkable they had ever seen. The patient is the first Chinese, so far as I know, who has ever voluntarily submitted to the amputation of a limb. At 5 o’clock the patient, having awoke from sleep, asked what he might eat. Congee was given. The expression of his countenance was good; he spoke with a natural voice, complained of cold, though his body was of good temperature, the skin feeling natural, with a gentle perspiration upon the forehead. (...) He occasionally started in his sleep, and when awake spoke of his arm as it were still on. (...) On the 21st, the dressings were changed again, and the remaining sutures slipped, and the wound had the most healthy appearance. Patient walks his room, his general health is good, and his strength is fast restoring. His gratitude and that of his father seem deep and sincere., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Name):
Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
