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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    [ 29.] that fhe has fometimes fince taken one Sort, and fometimes the other—that the thinks the Garden Nightfhade agrees beft with her, but that fhe cannot pofitively fay, fhe has received any confiderable fervice from either. A young Woman, belonging to a Gen¬ tlewoman, who lodges at Mr. Price s a To- bacconift in Sherrard-Jireet, Golden-fquare, had a Swelling in her Right Breaft, which fhe attributed to a Blow that the received i , accidentally upon the Part fome Months before. At the time of the Accident fhe felt a great deal of Pain, but it foon ceafed, and llie did not perceive any Swelling till a Month afterwards. She then felt a con¬ fiderable Fullnefs and Hardnefs in the \ *• Breaft. When I firft faw her, which was about four Months ago, fhe had a Tumour in the middle Part of her Breaft, which was almoft as big as a Hen’s Egg, and ac¬ cording to her own and her Friend’s Ke- prelentation, had been of that Size about ten • Weeks. The Swelling was not fo intenfe ly hard as a confirmed Schirrus, but was attended