Volume 1

A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker].

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [-2$ ] Weeks. The Medicine then ceafed to have any Operation upon the natural Evacua¬ tions. The Dofe was increafed, but to no good Purpofe : It feemed rather to heat her, an Effed: which fhe never found from it before, but the leaving it off in time prevented an Aggravation of the Symptoms, if in her Cafe that Expreffion may be al¬ lowed. She is now beginning the Medi¬ cine again, and is again relieved by it. J 4 k ' ’*' • • • v „ 1 \ * * *• • • '• t . . % A Lady, 47 Years of Age, about a Year and half ago, accidentally received a Hurt on her Left Breaft, and in a few Days after¬ wards fhe felt a Lump there of the Bignefs of a Hen’s Egg : She was at that time not in a good State of Health, having frequent Attacks of feverifh Diforders. She was blooded, purged, and made ufe of fof- tening Applications to the Part, but the Swelling, attended with confiderable Pain, foon increafed, and, not long after, appeared to be a confirmed and ulcerated Cancer; the * ~ * Tumour being very large, the Sores fpreading, and the Pain increafing. The other Breaft like wife fwelled very much, became yery hard D and s