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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    [ *33 ] much infedted by the abforbed virus, be¬ fore its effedts are exerted on the folid parts of the fyftem : for, to fay nothing of the other phenomena, the patient be¬ comes emaciated, the folids become dry, and acquire a more exquihte fenhbility. Whence it happens, that the putrid fpi- culce, excite them into more frequent and irregular motion, which, at length, be¬ comes truly fpafmodic ; and thefe effects are not produced in the other difeafes; if we except the malignant fever, when it attacks fuddenly. ; If wre are, therefore, farther afked, what difference there is between the purulent(z) and the cancerous diatheiis, we are in¬ clined to anlwer, that we deduce it, ra¬ ther from their degree of inteniity and energy, than from their effence. Whatever, however, may be the fpeci- fic character of the cancerous putridity, (z) We wifh to be underftood here, as fpeaking of the phlogifiic purulent putridity, which, far from being the fame as the colliquative putridity, feems to differ from it infi¬ nitely.