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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    fuccefs in applying it to cancerous ulcers 5 but gives cafes, on the authority of the gen¬ tleman laft named, of Dr. Haygarth, Mr. White, and himfelf, in which gangrenous and phagedenic fores, and particularly the ulcerated fore-throat, were much benefited by fumigating them with this acid gas. My friend Sir George Colebrooke informs me, that twenty years ago a furgeon of the Mid- dlefex Hofpital, whofe name he does not recoiled, (hewed him a patient who had been cured of a fuppofed cancer of the lip, by ex- pofmg it to a ftream of carbonic air; and that a relation of his own, who had a can¬ cerous ulcer on the nofe, kept it from advan¬ cing by the fame means. It is probable that M. de Fourcroy alludes, in the flrft part of the following quotation, to fome of thefe inftances ; and no doubt can be entertained of the truth of the fads after¬ wards mentioned by him. He obferves, [fee Fourcroy’sElemens deChimie, tom, i. p. 449] 4 4 Les