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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    [ ifio ] lion, neglect, or improper treatment. But the pofiibility of fo dreadful an event calls i for every exertion in our power to prevent it. The learned Allruc obferves, that abfceffes of the bread: often leave indurations of the glands, when fome of the obdru&ed part re¬ mains unfuppurated This feems to be the exadt flate of the cafe, and like mod: of that accurate author’s obfervations, very juft. The matter is brought about as I apprehend in the following manner, which, if it be ready the cafe, will ferve not only to account for the Variety of opinions on this head, but alfo to reconcile them. I have feen thefe com¬ plaints lad four, fix, eight and ten months when treated by the condant application of / x a bread and milk poultice, and when at length the abfcefs has been healed, and there has appeared no further difpcfition to fuppuration, the complaint has been confidered as cured ; and though there fhould remain fome of the * On the Difeafes of Women, p. 324. Book IV. chap. 4. obfir utted