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Medical Historians
- Rowan
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1462
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: I love history, but it's boring in school. Historical fiction brings it alive for me.
- Preferred HF: Iron-Age Britain, Roman Britain, Medieval Britain
- Location: New Orleans
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Medical Historians
Does anyone know of an medical historians or is anyone here a medical historian? I'm trying to find out exactly what ulcerous carcinoma is, but search engines are redirecting me to ulcerative colitis. Is that the same thing?
- Mythica
- Bibliophile
- Posts: 1095
- Joined: November 2010
- Preferred HF: European and American (mostly pre-20th century)
- Location: Colorado
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Re: Medical Historians
No, they are not the same thing, carcinoma is cancer. It might be similar/the same as this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjolin's_ulcer or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamous_cell_carcinoma or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal-cell_carcinoma
Ulcerative colitis is a gastro-intestinal disease that causes ulcers in the colon. Nothing to do with cancer.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional or medical historian. My mom is a nurse, and gastro-intestinal diseases run in my family so I'm familiar with UC.
Ulcerative colitis is a gastro-intestinal disease that causes ulcers in the colon. Nothing to do with cancer.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional or medical historian. My mom is a nurse, and gastro-intestinal diseases run in my family so I'm familiar with UC.
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3566
- Joined: August 2008
- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
Re: Medical Historians
I needed a cancerous skin ulcer in my 16th-century Spanish character, something that would be visible to others at need (so I put it on the chest, where he could also hide it) but steadily debilitating, like going into the lungs. Did some research, and bingo! Kaposi's Sarcoma. First documented in southern Mediterranean men circa 1500, perticularly those of Sephardic (Jewish) extraction.
Re: Medical Historians
Kaposi's Sarcoma is also dominant in HIV+ patients.
The common garden variety basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a skin cancer that ulcerates, and has another lovely name - Rodent Ulcer - as its like it is constantly nibbled away. However, BCCs typically only locally invade, and they don't become metastatic.
The common garden variety basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a skin cancer that ulcerates, and has another lovely name - Rodent Ulcer - as its like it is constantly nibbled away. However, BCCs typically only locally invade, and they don't become metastatic.
Re: Medical Historians
However, at that time, diagnosis would not have been very specific. Microscopes were only in their infancy, so all diagnosis would have been via clinical examination.
BTW, I work in pathology, so medical history interests me, though i haven't studied it formally.
BTW, I work in pathology, so medical history interests me, though i haven't studied it formally.