Practical observations on cancers and disorders of the breast. To which are added one hundred cases, successfully treated without cutting. Also some remarks on the effects of hemlock, shewing the inefficacy of that medicine in cancerous complaints / [Richard Guy].

  • Guy, Richard (Surgeon)
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[1762]
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Credit: Practical observations on cancers and disorders of the breast. To which are added one hundred cases, successfully treated without cutting. Also some remarks on the effects of hemlock, shewing the inefficacy of that medicine in cancerous complaints / [Richard Guy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *55 ) condemned nor invalidated from concluding the common Events from fuch Circum- ftances; yet at the fame Time confirms how inadequate our heft Judgments are to the Powers of Nature, when a little affifted by Art. k Case LXXXVII. MRs. Pickering, of Watling-Jlreet, ap¬ plied to me in May 1761, having a large indurated Tumour in the Bread:. She informed me, that a few Months before it began with a final] Swelling, without any Pain attending it, and, by a gradual In- creafe, became of the Size of a Hen’s Egg, uneven and knotty, without any Decolo¬ ration: She felt darting Pains at Times, which did not continue long together. An eminent Surgeon was confulted, who ad- vifed her having it cut out, as the only Means of preventing bad Confequences. She could not bring herfelf to a Refolution to comply with the Operation, but took an¬ other Surgeon’s Opinion, who directed only a cooling Ointment to the Part: The Pains afterwards becoming more frequent, and the Tumour enlarging its Size, flhe next confulted me upon it. I found the Tumour X 2 very