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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    [ *7 ] flages will confiderably aflift us, when we take a' philofophic view of the beft means to be ufed with the intention of removing the difeafed aCtion in each of the flages. A recent publication by Dr. Jofeph Adams, of Madeira, author of Obfervations on Morbid Poi- fons, has fallen into my hands. It is intitled Obfervations on the Cancerous Bread, and con- fids of letters to and from the author, and fome of the fird phyfiologids of the prefent day. Coming from fuch able hands, I fhall give a fhort account of thefe recent ideas. Dr. Adams prefixes to his correfpondence, a paper by Dr. John blunter, F. R. S. giving an ac¬ count of the diffeclion of a man, who died of a fup- preflion of urine, produced by a collection of hy¬ datids, between the neck of the bladder, and the rec¬ tum ; with obfervations on the manner in which hydatids grow, and multiply in the human body* It appears from the cafe, as related, that feveral tu¬ mors containing hydatids, had been generated in » f— the lower part of the fpleen, and as they became more unfolded from their original nidus, had funk down, infmuating themfelves into the cellular membrane, and lodging themfelves in fuch quanti¬ ties between the bladder and the reCtum, as to bring on the fatal fuppreflion. The flruClure of the hy¬ datids was the fame in both great and fmall; a D 2 tranfparent
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