Identifier: tumoursinnocentm1911blan (find matches)
Title: Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936
Subjects: Neoplasms
Publisher: New York : Funk
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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^ related to the longings ofpregnant women, who believe that if these are not appeasedthe child will appear with the wished-for article, usually 126 CONNECTIVE-TISSUE TUMOURS flowers or fruit, marked on its skin. Though these mattersreceive no support from the scientific investigator, thereis no belief more deeply rooted in the minds of matrons,3oung or old. The tradition comes to us from remote anti-quity, and the way in which Jacob turned it to advantage iswell set forth in his crafty management of Labans flock(Genesis xxx. 37).
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Fig. 68.—Extensive hairy mole upon the face of a boy a year old. The case of Esau who came out red all over like an hairygarment (Genesis xxv. 25), which curiously fascinates biblicalcommentators and matrons, had a parallel in a girl born atPisa, hairy all over. In this instance, the mother attributedit to the fact that during her pregnancy she had gazed at apicture of John the Baptist. This is a good example of thecircumstantial and plausible way women endeavour to accountfor these things. The belief even survives the ridicule of CONJUNCTIVAL MOLES 127 Charles Dickens, who represents Mrs. Gamp telling about aman six-foot-three marked with a mad bull in Wellinoftonboots upon the left arm, because his mother took refuge in ashoemakers shop when frightened by a mad bull during herpregnancy ( Martin Chuzzlewit, Chap. 46). Hairy patches on the conjunctiva (conjunctival moles).—The mucous membrane (conjunctiva) on the ocular surfaceof the eyelids and adjacent portions of the eyeball oc

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