History of a Remarkable Case of Tumours, Developed on the Head and Face; Accompanied with a Similar Disease in the Abdomen

Abstract

FRANCES MASSENGER presented herself as a dispen- sary patient in May 1840.She was rather short and thin, her eyes blue, and skin of a very dusky yellow tinge; aged fifty-two, and unmarried.The greater part of the scalp and face was loaded with solid tumours.*Those on the scalp were externally of a very florid colour, smooth, glossy, and denuded of hair.They varied fromn a pin's head to a horse-chesnut in size, and from a nearlv globular to an irregular flattened spheroidal form, with a tendency to assume a mammillated outline.A few tumours, perfectly round in shape, and of a violet hue, were interspersed; forming a remarkable con- trast to the former, and never attaining so large a size.Their colour evidently depended upon their vascu-* See Plate V.Q 2