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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    [ “7 ] § LXXX. A woman, aged about fifty- lix years, had an ulcerated Cancer, which had compleatly deftroyed the nofe, the greater part of the upper lip, and a fmall oortion of the cheeks. The pituitary mera- Drane, which lines the os ethmoides and maxillary finus, feemed likewife to be eroded : for the bones of the finus were enlarged and foftened, and the fkin that covered them, was livid and ulcerated.— The ulceration v/as of two years Handing. The difeafe had originated from a fmall tubercle in the upper lip ; and it was a- bout five months before I faw her, that the maxillary glands on each fide, had begun to fwell, and, very foon after¬ wards, to become painful:—in fhort, the cancerous fiats exifted in all its force.—I prefcribed the antifeptic, which I fhall defcribe hereafter (§ Ixxxiv. and leq.), with a view to obviate the cancerous dia- thefis of the humours.—The ulcer itfelf was expofed, during half an hour, to the vapor of a mixture, in aftual fermenta¬ tion.— I had placed this mixture in a large veflel:—the ulcer was then covered with pledgets, dipped in the white of an egg> l I I