A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes.
- Bernard Peyrilhe
- Date:
- 1777
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ”4 ] fame energy in experiments of this kind ; for I fee no other difference between the one and the other, than that of the heat, which the living bodies communicate to the putrid mafs that adheres to them ; while the putrid fubftances, which have been fweetened by this new antifeptic, by Sir John Pringle, Dr. Macbride, Gaber, and others, were ufually cold when they were fubmitted to experiments. § LXXVI. To fpeak ingenuoufly, however, the experiments that have hi¬ therto been made in this way, do not permit us to hope, that the antifeptic vapor intimately impregnates the whole of the cancerous mafs. -— Dr. Macbride’s feventeenth experiment, would feem to prove the contrary. — Still, however, if the firft vaporation is found to penetrate to the depth of two. lines, and reftores fo much of the parts to their fweetnefs, may we not be permitted to hope, that the fecond operation will go further, and that thus, by being frequently repeated, the whole cancerous mafs, will, at length become impregnated and fweetened ? $ LXXVII.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30362817_0124.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
