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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    [ ] times a day, impregnated in the way I before-mentioned.—The miferable pati¬ ent being worn out by the moft horrid torments, at length, died in convulfions, on the twenty-third day from the attack of the pain, and two months from the time fhe came under my care. -— The ulcer continued to look well to the laft.—It was impoflible for me to procure the in- fpedtion of the body, which would proba¬ bly have difcovered to us the caufe of the patient’s death. If I might be allowed to conjedlure on the occafion, I Ihould at¬ tribute it to a cancerous difeafe within the head. , § LXXXI. Another woman, aged a- bout fifty years, had a Cancer in the breaft, which bad been ulcerated about nine months.—After every thing had been tried for her, except amputation, (to which fhe had conftantly refufed to fubmit), fhe was placed under my care.— I be gan by employing internal antifep- tic remedies, which mitigated the fe¬ ver, and colical pains, and likewife mode¬ rated the palpitations, and procured the patient