Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard.
- Howard, John, Fellow of the College of Surgeons
- Date:
- 1811
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Credit: Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of the bowels supervened. A great number of miliary glands in the neighbourhood of the ulcer- ation were hard, and in a diseased state. There was one on the head, another on one of the thighs, a third on the opposite breast, and there were also many in the neck, so that at this late period of the disease there was a general glandular affection. Various means were used to check, if possible, the hasty progress of the disease, but all to no purpose;—such were the carrot and ferment- ing poultices, with yeast, &c. These in a great mea- sure corrected thefcetor; lessened, and somewhat ameliorated, the discharge; but they did not prevent the general and local glandular symptoms from . spreading to the last. Case 42.]—During my attendance on the above lady, I was desired to see her cousin, a married woman, aged about 40, having had children. She had a small moveable tumor in one breast, which might have been easily removed; but, with an instance before her eyes of an operation having failed in her relation, she would not listen to it. Indeed, the tumor was so small, indolent, and sta- tionary, I did 110t Lirge it? but directed her to have leeches applied, not on the tumor, but around it; to keep her bowels open with Epsom salt; to live sparingly as to animal food; to eat vegetables; and to make milk a part of her diet. I made a dram below the tumor, at some distance from it by penciling the ,kjn with Lap. Intern.—A friend](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
