[Note: a "gumma" is non-cancerous growth with a necrotic center, resulting from syphilis in the tertiary stage.]
Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 03113
May 6, 1898
Surgeon in Charge of Freedmen's Hospital
Washington, DC
Dear Sir:
I beg to inform you that the tumor of mediastinum in the case of J. Chase, colored, contributed by you Dr D.S. Lamb [name noted in pencil] to this Museum on March 28, has been examined under the microscope and proves to be a gumma.
Very respectfully,
Walter Reed
Surgeon, U.S. Army,
Curator.
[Handwritten notation]
Specimen No. 11453 Path. Sect
credit Dr. Lamb
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