Citations:melanosis


 * 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.
 * 1882, Staff, "From White to Black", The Cincinnati Enquirer, Washington McLean, page 4, column 4, via &mdash; Newspapers.com:
 * The pecular and very rare disease known as melanosis, with with Robison is afflicted, has brought him into prominence, so that physicians are going from all parts of the country to see him.
 * One of the lumps on Robison was removed by Drs. Falls and Mussey and examined by Professor Echherz, of the Miami Medical College, who found it to be positively melanosis, or black cancer.