Surgical observations : being a quarterly report of cases in surgery, treated in the Middlesex Hospital, in the cancer establishment, and in private practice : embracing an account of the anatomical and pathological researches in the School of Windmill Street / by Charles Bell.
- Charles Bell
- Date:
- 1816
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Surgical observations : being a quarterly report of cases in surgery, treated in the Middlesex Hospital, in the cancer establishment, and in private practice : embracing an account of the anatomical and pathological researches in the School of Windmill Street / by Charles Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![REPORT OF TIIE iliflelrical titommitte* of tije OF THB 22D JUNE, 1816, ON THE RESULT OF THEIR EXPERIENCE IN CASES OF CANCER TREATED BY COMPRESSION. The Medical Committee having met, pursuant to the resolution of the Board, to take into consi- deration the result of their experience in the cases of cancer, treated by compression, report as fol- lows :— That eight cases of open cancer [as it is com- monly called] and eight cases also of the scirrhous kind, have been submitted to the treatment by compression ; some of them for several months, and others for a shorter period. That in some of the cases of open cancer, com- bined with considerable oedema, the pressure was useful in lessening the volume of the tumor : but that it had not, even in a single instance, any salutary influence upon the specific nature of the disease. It frequently gave so much pain that the patients could not, after repeated trials, endure](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21448085_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
