. Cyclopædia of obstetrics and gynecology. FiG. 40.—Two Isolated Cancerous Nodules in a still well-developed Mamma. One-halfnatural size. plied to every kind of induration, whether due to a neoplasm or a chronicinflammatory process (these two were not as distinctly separated as now).The designation scirrhus degeneration, formerly did not include malig-nancy. It was in the beginning of the present century that it first be-came more and more the custom to use the expression schirrhus for theharder, and fungus medullaris for softer neoplasms, while for thechronic inflammatory indurations the desi

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. Cyclopædia of obstetrics and gynecology. FiG. 40.—Two Isolated Cancerous Nodules in a still well-developed Mamma. One-halfnatural size. plied to every kind of induration, whether due to a neoplasm or a chronicinflammatory process (these two were not as distinctly separated as now).The designation scirrhus degeneration, formerly did not include malig-nancy. It was in the beginning of the present century that it first be-came more and more the custom to use the expression schirrhus for theharder, and fungus medullaris for softer neoplasms, while for thechronic inflammatory indurations the designation callous came into 9G DISEASES OF IlIE rE:IALE MAMMAIiY GLAXDS. use. Later, wlieii tlic expression carcinoma was used for malignantgrowths generally, and Ijy (lerman writers especially (in Erance and Eng-land, cancer and squirrlie are most used for the designation of malignant.