A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes.

  • Bernard Peyrilhe
Date:
1777
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Credit: A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ”5 ] § LXXVII. Secondly. The conftant life of the antifeptic vapor, will gradually diminifh the putrefactive procefs; and the caufe which excites it in the cancerous mafs, will, of courfe, diminifh with it. % x ' § LXXVIII. I forefee, that it will be difficult to procure the feparation of the inorganic mafs from the found parts ;— but would it not be a wholefome prac¬ tice, after having diminifhed the putre¬ factive procefs, and rendered the difeafe more mild, to cut away the cancerous mafs gradually to the quick ? it is cer¬ tain, that encyfted tumours, the putridity of which is of a milder character, that is to fay, more colliquative, admit of this treatment.-—Perhaps the living principle, will, of itfelf, throw off the difeafed and inorganic mafs, if affifted by proper to¬ pics.—What thofe topics are, experience does not permit us to fay with certainty, one excepted (q).—The feparation of en- (fj) See what is faid of the vapor of vinegar, § 83* 2 cyfted