From noli-me-tangere to rodent ulcer: The recognition of basal cell carcinoma
1974; Elsevier BV; Volume: 27; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0007-1226(74)90007-1
ISSN1465-3087
Autores Tópico(s)Wound Healing and Treatments
ResumoNOLI-ME-TANGERE, "touch-me-not", was the term applied to slowly spreading lesions of the skin in the Dark Ages.As one thirteenth-century author wrote, "plus corrodit cancer in uno die, quam noli-me-tangere in uno mensa".In addition to basal cell carcinomas, of course, the term included such lesions as syphilis, lupus vulgaris and true cancer of the skin, whose clinical pictures could be similar in certain instances.It was mostly deemed to be incurable, unsuitable for the knife and worsened by caustics.FIG.I. Jacques Daviel (1693-1762), who gave the first known account of a series of patients treated surgically for noli-me-tangere and who were almost certainly suffering from rodent ulcer.Daviel (Fig. I), in an address to the Royal Society of London in 1755, was the first to suggest that certain varieties of noli-me-tangere in the peri-orbital region could be cured by excision:"The most able oculists have . . .entered into an opinion, that they were impossible to be cured and therefore never dared to undertake them.Some are content to treat them with
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