Citations:melanoma


 * 1838, Sir Robert Carswell, Pathological Anatomy, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, (page 197), via &mdash; Google Books:
 * MELANOMA: A morbid product, presenting a black colour of various degrees of intensity, somewhat humid, opaque, possessing the consistence and homogenous aspect of the tissue of the bronchial glands of the adult, was first described by Laennee under the appellation of Melanosis.
 * 1845, Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Encyclopædia Metropolitana (Volume 7), B. Fellowes, page 615, via &mdash; Google Books:
 * The diseases of structure are, therefore, of vast importance, so much so that many pathologists have considered them as constituting the whole body of medicine. It is proposed now to divide them into four great divisions; the 1st embracing Inflammations having no specific character, also Malaxoma, Scleroma, Atrophia, and Hypertrophia; the 2nd, Tuberculoma; the 3rd, Carcinoma; and the 4th, Melanoma.
 * 1880, Joseph Thomas, A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary, J.B. Lippincott & Company, page 323, via &mdash; Google Books:
 * Mel-a-no'ma, atis. (etymology omitted) A disease in which there are dark soot-colored tubercles under the integuments and in the viscera; black cancer.
 * 1904, Staff, "Radium and Cancer", The Washington Post, page 9, column 8, via &mdash; Newspapers.com:
 * "Up to this time as a therapeutic experiment I have operated successfully on Melanome and cancroide (cancer.)"
 * 1910, Staff, "15,000 in 1910; Almost, Not Quite", The Daily Times, Democrat Pub. Co., New Philadelphia, Ohio, page 1, column 4, via &mdash; Newspapers.com:
 * Causes of death were as follows: ... paralysis 8, gall stones 2, diffuse melanoma 1, senility 5 ....
 * 1939, Staff (Associated Press), "Unsightly Mole is Absolved of Blame Producing Cancer", Corsican Daily Sun, Sun-Light Pub. Co., Corsicana, Texas, page 9, column 7, via &mdash; Newspapers.com:
 * "The smooth, dark brown of dark blue marks, devoid of hair, are the ones that are most dangerous," he explained. "It is from this type that melanoma (serious skin cancer) often develops.".