New treatment of malignant diseases, and cancer, without incision / by A.M. Bureaud Riofrey.

Date:
1836
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Credit: New treatment of malignant diseases, and cancer, without incision / by A.M. Bureaud Riofrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CASE 1. Cancer of the Breast. Madame Delahaye, aged forty-three, living in Paris, menses irregular, scrofulous constitu- tion, having already had several cutaneous diseases: seven years ago her infant sucked her breast so violently, that an irritation en- sued; the breast became wrinkled, it seemed drawn and supported by strings: the pain was felt at the nipple. Nothing was seen for eight months, but at this time the glands became hard, they were distant from each other. \ In December, 1833, Mr. Jules Cloquet performed an operation, and the wound got well; but three months afterwards a fresh tu- mour appeared, and a second operation became necessary. When on the 4th of May, 1835, the escharotic paste was employed, there was a lump as large as an egg; it was adherent and cartilaginous. Three applications were made: the two first were preparations of the chloride of Zinc: at the end of five weeks the wound, which was six inches in circumference, was in good healing condition. I saw the patient be- fore I left Paris, the 16th June, 1835. I have
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