An account of the methods pursued in the treatment of cancerous and schirrhous disorders, and other indurations ... / [J.O. Justamond].

  • John Obadiah Justamond
Date:
1780
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Credit: An account of the methods pursued in the treatment of cancerous and schirrhous disorders, and other indurations ... / [J.O. Justamond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I *55 ] PART III. Of the Method of treating the Coagulation cf Milk in the Breafts of Women after lying- in, commonly called the Milk Breaji, and the Abfcefs in the Breaji, which frequently fucceed it. r is a complaint made very light of by moll: practitioners in furgery, from V a fuppofition that it always gets well in time without any thing being done to it, except keeping the part covered with a large bread and milk poultice, and that it never degene¬ rates into a fchirrhous tumour or cancer, I cannot help thinking that this is a mif- conceived opinion. Behdes the teflimony of Aftruc (which I fhall foon take particular notice of) and many other writers in fupport of a contrary opinion, experience has (hewn me fome in (lances of very malignant cancers which wrere traced by the patients them- felves from a milk abfcefs in the bread:, with-