A treatise on the management of female breasts during childbed : and several new observations on cancerous diseases with prescriptions ; to which are added remarks on pretenders to the cure of the cancer / by William Rowley.

  • William Rowley
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MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: A treatise on the management of female breasts during childbed : and several new observations on cancerous diseases with prescriptions ; to which are added remarks on pretenders to the cure of the cancer / by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    [ 1.0 ] t>t it in feme diforders ; and that, in cafes where it fails to cure, it will fometimes at leaft afford great eafe and relief. It has not been fubjeft, as far as my pra£lice has extended, f'6 produce any lafting ill confequence. Mr. Gataker^ in the Supplement, fays, I am now per- fuaded that there is very little reafon to believe it has any fpe- eific power for the cure of any particular difeafe that has not any fuch peculiar and unaccountable power as is found to be in the bark for the cure of an ague, or in mercury for the cure of the venereal difeafe j but as it is a great promoter of moil of the natural difcharges of the body, it has a power of pro- curing lleep and eafing pains. The nightfhade, in a paralytic cafe, feemcd to be very fer- ticeable. in feveral dropfical cafes the nightfliade had good efFeft. Heifieri C.omp. Mcdicince^ prafticae 269. Alii fuccum belladonnae, alii folia & deco6i;um ejus & ex- terne & interne magnifaciunt; verum line fru6lu hasc adhibita faiffe hovi. Remede epfouve pour guerir radicalement le Cancer occulte & manifefte ou ulcere, Stc. par Meffire G. R. le Febure de St- lid***. The author examined, by chemical experiments, the ichor that flowed from an open cancer of two patients, which Ihewed different effefls. His remedy for the cancer is arfctnic taken inwardly. Jdcobi ufed it in all fevers^ principally in intermittents. Phcairriy Zacutus Litfitanus, &c,, have employed it ia dyfenteries- Fallopius, Penot, Iheohric^ ValefcuSi and others, made ufe of it as topical applications in cancerous ulcers ; yet they only employed it as a cauftic, and frequently mixed it with corro* Sve fubiimate. ibiffert. Academique fur le Cancer, Vvhich obtained the dou- ble