The history of two cases of ulcerated cancer of the mamma ; one of which has been cured, the other much relieved, by a new method of applying carbonic acid air / [John Ewart].

  • Ewart, John
Date:
1794
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Credit: The history of two cases of ulcerated cancer of the mamma ; one of which has been cured, the other much relieved, by a new method of applying carbonic acid air / [John Ewart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hole in the leather, and its edges folded back and ftuck to the plafter on the oppofite fide; forming fomewhat of the ftiape of a round hat, the plafter refembling the rim, and the bladder, when diftended, the crown. In order the more effectually to cement the adhefion of the bladder to the plafter, and to make it air¬ tight, narrow circular ftrips of plafter were applied round their junction both infide and without. The large plafter was then fixed on the mamma, the aperture in its center with the bladder fitted to it being placed exactly over the ulcer, no part of which was touched by the plafter. A fmall orifice was made at the fundus of the bladder, fufficient to admit a tube of about a quarter of an inch diameter, which communicated with the top of an in¬ verted cylinder, fufpended upon water, which cylinder was filled with carbonic acid air. [See the plate.] The bladder being clofely fqueezed, to expel from it the atmofpheric air it contained, and the above-mentioned tube being