More History of Sarcoma
In the 1800's, Sarcoma was a known medical entity. I have mentioned before about my curiosity in this subject, (I just find it fascinating) and recently, did a search of old newpaper archives online. The full page is digitally copied and presented for example, but totally unreadable. So excerpts of the articles were transcribed by OCR technology which produces garbled text. (Typeface fonts were hard to read back then, even to the human eye.) I have attempted to discern what I can from the following articles.

1810
March 13 - Edinburgh Advertiser
A medical book, "a handsome pocket volume", was being offered for sale. Mention is made of the Antiquarian and Chirurgical (surgical) Society, and the "Practical Directions for the Management of Cancer", with SARCOMA listed in the Index.

1829
August 08, The Sandusky Clarion, (Ohio) ,
Dr. Wilson placed notice (advertisement) encouraging others, "who may unfortunately be in need of any similar assistance", discussed his expertise in the disease designated an osteo-SARCOMA in which was an enlargement of lowerjaw bone."

1838
March 15, Alton Observer
The Degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon the following individuals and a paper on Medullary Sarcoma was presented by John Evans.


Enalns AL on Blood Letting
Edwin H. Davis, on Electricity as Cause of Epidemics (as in weather electricity)
EK Dayton, on Blood letting
John Evans, on Medullary SARCOMA
Elia Garat, on Acute Gastritis
John If, the Blood
Edward Kimball, on Arachnilios" (spiders?)
Joseph Redhead, on Lesions of the Pleura
John A. Fating, Relations of the nervous and vascular systems in Intermittent Fevers

1879August 29, The Decatur Daily Review
At Carrollton, Mr. H Dowdall died under a surgical operation. For nearly a year the patient had suffered from osteo-SARCOMA, resulting from the fracture of the thigh bone. Dr. Younkin, a surgeon of St. Louis, operated upon the case. The patient bore the chloroform and operation well until he began to come out of the anaesthetic, when he immediately sank and died.

1881
November 18, Fort Wayne Daily Gazette
Osteo-SARCOMA, by Dr. Stemen, presents an interesting case which came under his practice.

1884
April 24, Indiana Weekly Progress
A post mortem examination, made on Sunday conducted by four doctors, developed the theory that the disease was SARCOMA or tumor combined with or producing softening of the brain.

1885
January 19, - New York Times

A NEW CANCER CURE: EXPERIMENTING WITH A BRAZILIAN REMEDY KNOWN AS ALVELOZ

The story of the Cundurango (Brazil) cure for Capt. John A. Duble, of the District, has been treated for a cancer of the face (Epithelioma) with an application of "alveloz," a Brazilian remedy.



May 07, - Cambridge Jeffersonian
"A cancer, of whatever kind, is always malignant. Though hard cancer, of which an epithelioma is one, is not so malignant as a soft cancer, in which the cells preponderate over the fibrous tissue. What is now called SARCOMA, which was once thought to be a cancer, is a benign tumor generally, but may be malignant. It differs from a cancer mainly in having its cells separated from other by intervening substance. In the latter the cells lie against each...."

June 10, - Newark Daily Advocate
"...patient's cheek gradually assumed a black appearance. In several places small pieces of bone could be felt where the jaw had become affected and had thrown off sharp splinters. After a careful examination the disease was diagnosed as a SARCOMA, or cancerous growth of a malignant type. Internal treatment did not check the progress of the cancer and the patient consented to risk a surgical operation, though he was told that the chances were all against him."