Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Seventh report, Chinese Repository vol. 6. 1836-1837, p. 436-437: No. 3488. Cartilaginous tumor. Woo Pun, aged 41, a shoemaker of Pwanyü, have been afflicted with a large unshapen tumor upon the left side of his neck. It hung pendulous from the submaxilliary, extending backward over the external jugular vein and carotid artery, forwards to the opposite side of the trachea and downwards to the breast. For the last ten years its growth was rapid, and from its magnitude it had become very cumbersome. It was as large as the man’s head, and so hard as not to yield to the pressure of the thumb. Centrally it was diseased and having perforated by an escharotics of an Chinese practitioner, it emitted a most offensive discharge. The aperture was half an inch in diameter and as regular as if formed by a drill. The patient kept it closed with a stopple, every morning evacuating some ounces of offensive fluid. His constitution had begun to suffer. On the 19th June, assisted by Messrs Cox, Cullen and Jardine, the tumor was removed in about five minutes. Several veins of considerable size were divided. (...) The tumor was two feet in circumference and weighed 7 lbs. The patient scarce uttered a groan. In twenty minutes he was comfortable in bed. (...) At 1 o’clock A.M. a servant called; and when I arrived at the hospital, the poor man was apparently gasping his last. He was very bloody and evidently made a desperate struggle without success to loosen the bandage. The neck was instantly freed of the roller. His pulse was just perceptible, his extremities were already cold; he foamed at the nose, and breathed stertorously, as in apoplexy. His mouth was immediately freed of phlegm, and his nose of blood; stimulants were applied, and also administered internally, and bottles of warm water put to his feet. (...) Probably the brother [his brother?] fell asleep and awoke only by the almost dying struggle of the patient. Two or three minutes delay in coming to his relief might have been too late! (...) In one month he was perfectly recovered. He has repeatedly visited the hospital. His constitution was wonderfully recovered and from the inroads of the disease and he again enjoys excellent health, and evinced unbound gratitude. He sees to regard the favor received, as conferring on him full liberty to introduce and all his diseased friends. This is very uniformly the case with such as have received any special benefit., 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)
Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Eighth report, Chinese Repository, Vol. 7, 1838-1839, p. 99: “No 5075, Yin Youwei, aged 30, a farmer of Nanhae, had a tumor three inches diameter, beneath his right ear, in an inflamed state, very painful, and fast tending to suppuration. This was also removed on the 25th April in six minutes. The adhesion was rather firm to the integument above, and to the angle of the jaw. The submaxillary gland was exposed to view. In fifteen days the patient was discharged quite well.”, 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)
Man seated. Large growth on the left side of his back
Alternative Title:
Case No. 3438
Description:
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Subject (Name):
Parker, Peter, 1804-1888. and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Chinese, Missions, Medical, Tumors, Cancer, and Sick persons
Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Eighth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital, Chinese Repository, vol. 7, 1838-1839, p. 98-99: No. 4903, Tumor of peculiar character. March 5th. Choo Yihleang, aged 31, a shoemaker of Kaauyaou, had a tumor on the right side of the neck, as large as his head, and as it appeared from a front view. It was situated beneath the sterno-cleido-mastoidous muscle, and the superficial fascia. It extended from the ear to the clavicle, and from upon the trachea to the posterior edge of the above muscle, which was drawn very tense above it. When the patient entered the hospital it was firmly fixed, scarcely admitting a perceptible motion in any direction. At a point on the surface near the apex was indicated a slight collection of fluid. The patient was blooming in health and resolutely desirous of its extirpation. He was admitted to the hospital, and in the course of a week or ten days, after repeated examinations it was manifestly more movable, a fact that the patient also observed. (...) On the 25th April the operation was performed, assisted by Messrs Cox, Jardine, and Holgate. (...) The preceding day he requested not to be tied, assuring me he would not move a limb, or speak a word. When the moment arrived instead of shrinking from the crisis, he put one hand on the table, and skipped upon it with great agility, as if joyful in the prospect of being freed of his troublesome companion. (...) in four minutes [the tumor was] completely out. (...) During the operation the patient was perfectly collected and did not utter a groan; spoke with natural voice when spoken to, and repeatedly requested the operator might not be alarmed. The tumor weighed 5 1/3 lbs. It was surrounded by a firm wall an inch thick, resembling in hardness the full grown cacao nut, except at one point, then came another layer of three quarters of an inch of white pulpy substance, and centrally there were several ounces of milky fluid quite inodorous. The large muscle resumed its natural place, the wound healed chiefly by the first intention and in twenty days the patient in good health and with unequivocal sentiments of gratitude, returned to his family., 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)
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, Tumors, Arm, Diseases, and Sick persons
Man in profile. Mass hanging from the back of the right side of the scalp
Alternative Title:
Case No. 4605 and Low Tangshow
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., Eighth Report of the Ophthalmic Hospital, January 1st to June 30th 1838, p. 97: No. 4605, Tumor of the scalp, December 18th, 1837. Low Tangshow, a laborer of Tungkwan, a young man with lymphatic temperament, had a singular disease upon a hairy scalp, of ten years growth. When he came to the hospital a mass, half the size of his head, hung loose over his right ear and down upon the back of the neck, being situated principally on the crown, back and right sides of the head. On the 25th of April the operation was performed (...). The portion of the scalp taken away was large enough to cover one third of the head. (...) The wound healed kindly and perfectly in about eight weeks and he was discharged on the 19th June., 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, Scalp, Tumors, and Sick persons
Donated by Peter Parker to the Yale School of Medicine and transferred to the Historical Library., Fifteenth Report, Chinese Repository, vol. 11, 1850, p. 268: No. 27976, Lipoma of both cheeks, 12th June 1848, Háng Ahau, aged 50, of the district of Pwányü, manufacturer of artificial flowers, had a singular affection of both cheeks, resembling lipoma of the nose. The morbid growth of either side were of the same size, about ten inches in circumference, and hung pendulous from both cheeks, presenting a very singular appearance. The only inconvenience occasioned was from their weight. Shortly after presenting himself at the hospital, he was seized with fever, and went home, and has not since returned., and Man with lumpy masses hanging from both cheeks.
Subject (Geographic):
China
Subject (Name):
Case No. 27976, Háng Ahau, and Parker, Peter, 1804-1888
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Chinese, Missions and Missionaries, Missions, Medical, Neoplasms, and Tumors
Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., 13th Report, Chinese Repository, vol. 14, 1845, p. 450-452: No. 15009, October 16th, 1844. Glandular tumor. Yáng Káng, aged 35, of Singhwui, latterly a beggar in Macao, had tumor on the right side of his face, which commenced in the situation of a parotid gland, measuring two feet and six inches in circumference, weighing when extirpated 6 1/2 catties, equal to 8 2/3 lbs. It commenced ten years since and when his magnitude disabled him from acquiring a maintenance by labor he had no resource but begging. His burden, wearisome to bear for an hour, he could not put off for a moment, day or night, from year to year. He had been a loathsome and pitiable object to the foreign citizens for a long time, and sometimes on passing him on the street he presented, from unknown authors, written appeal of sympathy and a request that the poor man might be relieved of his burden. He was greatly delighted when informed on the feasibility of an operation, and resigned if the result should be fatal, as he deemed death preferable to life of mendacity and suffering. Oct 26th, the tumor was extirpated. (...) The patient discovered great fortitude, coolly remarking on commencement of the first incision “It hurts, doctor”. The tumor was a glandular structure, and being laid open it was found to be discolored in parts, and containing small cavities filled with dark mucilaginous fluid, and others with yellowish or lympid. Portions of the tissue cut harder than the rest, and approached a cartilaginous and semi osseous structure. The magnitude of the operation, the elliptical incisions being eighteen inches each, and the adhesion at the base, over the parotid, being deep and strong, rendered it impossible it should be performed with ordinary solicitude. The mingling hope of success and fears of the worst possible consequences, excited devout and sincere intercessions at the throne of grace on his behalf, and an earnest use of means to prepare him to whatever might the divine atonement. He was told that others fervently entreated the high God to save him, but it was desired that he himself should pray to him who alone could succeed the means to be used when laid upon the operation table (...) again he was urged to lift his heart to the God of heaven and the only Savior. Tumor extirpated with success and the man recovered in three weeks. [The man] A living monument of gratitude, witnessed by thousands who come thither. Though mild and gentle, he possesses much natural energy of character, and commands attention when the dense crowd requires him to raise his voice. The transition from the condition of a beggar from the streets of Macao to that of a door-keeper in the Ophthalmic hospital, no doubt seems to him great, but the infinitely more desirable one of conversion from an idolater to a trophy of redeeming love can alone form the climax of our desires concerning him., White: “Believed to be the tumor on the right side of face. Chi Rep XIV 450. Report July 1845.”, 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, Tumors, Face, Cancer, and Sick persons
Man with a tumor of the right side of the head involving the ear. View from back
Alternative Title:
Case No. 15009 and Yáng Káng
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date supplied by curator., See Portrait No. 47 for view from front., 13th Report, Chinese Repository, vol. 14, 1845, p. 450-452: No. 15009, October 16th, 1844. Glandular tumor. Yáng Káng, aged 35, of Singhwui, latterly a beggar in Macao, had tumor on the right side of his face, which commenced in the situation of a parotid gland, measuring two feet and six inches in circumference, weighing when extirpated 6 1/2 catties, equal to 8 2/3 lbs. It commenced ten years since and when his magnitude disabled him from acquiring a maintenance by labor he had no resource but begging. His burden, wearisome to bear for an hour, he could not put off for a moment, day or night, from year to year. He had been a loathsome and pitiable object to the foreign citizens for a long time, and sometimes on passing him on the street he presented, from unknown authors, written appeal of sympathy and a request that the poor man might be relieved of his burden. He was greatly delighted when informed on the feasibility of an operation, and resigned if the result should be fatal, as he deemed death preferable to life of mendacity and suffering. Oct 26th, the tumor was extirpated. (...) The patient discovered great fortitude, coolly remarking on commencement of the first incision “It hurts, doctor”. The tumor was a glandular structure, and being laid open it was found to be discolored in parts, and containing small cavities filled with dark mucilaginous fluid, and others with yellowish or lympid. Portions of the tissue cut harder than the rest, and approached a cartilaginous and semi osseous structure. The magnitude of the operation, the elliptical incisions being eighteen inches each, and the adhesion at the base, over the parotid, being deep and strong, rendered it impossible it should be performed with ordinary solicitude. The mingling hope of success and fears of the worst possible consequences, excited devout and sincere intercessions at the throne of grace on his behalf, and an earnest use of means to prepare him to whatever might the divine atonement. He was told that others fervently entreated the high God to save him, but it was desired that he himself should pray to him who alone could succeed the means to be used when laid upon the operation table (...) again he was urged to lift his heart to the God of heaven and the only Savior. Tumor extirpated with success and the man recovered in three weeks. [The man] A living monument of gratitude, witnessed by thousands who come thither. Though mild and gentle, he possesses much natural energy of character, and commands attention when the dense crowd requires him to raise his voice. The transition from the condition of a beggar from the streets of Macao to that of a door-keeper in the Ophthalmic hospital, no doubt seems to him great, but the infinitely more desirable one of conversion from an idolater to a trophy of redeeming love can alone form the climax of our desires concerning him., 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, Tumors, Face, Cancer, and Sick persons
