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Excerpt from The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 121 Clinical History (Dr. Preble). Patient, female, J.S, aged thirty-five years. Comes from a family whose history presents nothing of interest, especially is there no history of any tumors in any way resembling the tumors presented by the patient. When very young, a tumor appeared on the forehead and grew slowly until the resulting deformity led to efforts of removal by some sort of a morcellating operation. Shortly after this other tumors appeared irregularly and in great numbers over the entire body. The personal history gives nothing else of interest until young womanhood is reached, when the patient begins to suffer from pain and weakness, which gradually increased until they caused complete disability. She gives a history of a complete paraplegia without bladder or rectum disturbances. From the history given I am inclined to believe that the paraplegia was hysterical. Some years after the appearance of the tumors, but just when the patient cannot recall, she began to show the beginning of the joint changes which are now so marked. These consist of swelling and deformity, but there is not much pain. The joints first and most involved were the small joints of the hand; the changes began symmetrically. The tumors have not caused much disturbance as a rule, only a few of them having been painful. The patient states that they have varied in size from time to time, and that some of them have entirely disappeared spontaneously. Two years before I saw her a tumor on the left thigh ulcerated, and in spite of every treatment has never healed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.