Cases of cancer : with observations on the use of carbonate of lime in that disease / By Edward Kentish.

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832
Date:
1802
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Credit: Cases of cancer : with observations on the use of carbonate of lime in that disease / By Edward Kentish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L & ] - inverfe of this take place, viz. A lady who had had no previous difeafe, was attacked with cancer, which was fuccefsfully extirpated and healed; but in a fhort time afterwards, fhe was afflided with rheumatifm, which affumed the chronic type ; and Ihe remained troubled with this difeafed adion, which increafed fo much, as to confine her to her bed during the laft years of her life. From thefe obfervations we are led to conclude, that females, who have been fubjed to chronic rheumatifm, are difpofed to take on the cancerous adion: and again, that thofe who have under¬ gone the cancerous adion, are difpofed to take on the rheumatic. We (hould therefore warn thofe with fuch difpofitions, to avoid whatever may break in upon their limited fp*ere of healthy adion. Cancerous affedions of the mammae will divide themfelves into two ftages. The firfl will include all the phenomena, from the torpor of the part, until it ends in the partial death of the gland, and ulceration commences. From this point the fecond ftage will arife, which continues until the dead part is either taken away by art, or thrown off by na¬ ture, and a cicatrix formed ; or it remains until the corrofive folution of the dead part afiimilates the living to itfelf, and preys upon the fubjed, who wears out a painful exiftgnce by hedic fever. This divifion of cancerous affedions into two ftages
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