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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    For the corpulent, with a languid circula- tion, the cold, and debilitated, Aloetics as laxatives; tonics are fometimes, though rarely, neceflary ; in which latter cafe the medicines for the bilious and nervous clafs Ihould be preferred. No. 18. I]^. Infuf. amar. §ifs. Tin6t. flor. mart. 3J. M. F. haullus ter de die fumendus. Or, No. 19. ]^. Flor. mart. 31].' Spec, aromat. ^ij. Con. rofar. liifs. M. 1\ eled. ciijus capiat C^N. M. ter de die. Other chalybeates, and fometimes the cortex Peruvianus in milk, will be proper. No. 20, 5i. Pulv. cort. Peruv. 3ij. Cinnab. antimon. ppt. 3j. M, F. pulvis, dividendus in viij. dofes, quarutti fumat vinam ter de die ex coch.iij. aqu^- purae, hordeat^, vel julep, e camphor. With this clafs of patients a dry diet is ab- folutely necefTary, It fhould be obferved, that the inflances are few in which the bark, or other tonics, prove ufeful; for, on the contrary, they oftener ex- cite pain; under which circumflance they Ihoulc' be immediately difcontinued. 0«