The surgeon who to avoid inflicting pain should shrink from the complete removal of a malignant tumour, would fail to relieve the patient as he ought to have done.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
The blood running down his face as he scratched an ulcerous tumour on his forehead, he said, "Would this were all that is to befall me!"
"Titus Flavius Domitianus (Domitian) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 12."
C. Suetonius Tranquillus
A patient of two famous court physicians at Madrid had a big and wonderful tumour on the loins.
"Fathers of Biology"
Charles McRae