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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    After the ulcers are dreiTed according to art, a bladder, foftened with oil, may cover the dreilings. All the parts furrounding the ulcers, where there is no excoriation^ ihould be defended from the; acrimony of the difcharge by any foft fimple unguent, oleum camphors, or the oint- tnents No. 21,* 22. The internal treatment of this flage of the diforder ihould be iimilar to the antecedent itage,; the indications fliould be drawn more from the various circumflances ariiing, and the different conftitutions of the patients, than from any fixed regular plan of pradl'ice. Diforders are irregular in their attacks; pra«51:itioners Ihould be difcerhing and cautious, and accom- modate their pradice to individuals. To correal the putrid acrimony,, the follow- ing and iimilar prefcriptions have proved ad- vantageous : No, 31. I|i, Pulv. cort. Peruv. Cinnab. antlmon. ppt. aa 31]. M. F, pulvis, dividendus in viij. dofes, quariim fumat imam ter de die in pauxillo fyrupi iimplicis, vel aiiqua gelatina, iuperbibeh- do hauftum fequentem, Ko. 32. 1^;. Juiep. e camph. 3vj>> , ^ Bccod'. cort, Peruv. |j. . Tind. ejufdem 3ij. F. hauftus. It miiil be obferved^ that the bark and other tonics