Quotes / Medical Horror

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I examined her and found a frightful sarcoma of the bone, hardly showing upon the surface, but involving the shoulder-blade and clavicle as well as the humerus. A more malignant case I have never seen. [...] The mischief was so great that the arm snapped as we drew it from the night-dress.

—Round The Red Lamp by Arthur Conan Doyle

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