The history of two cases of ulcerated cancer of the mamma : one of which has been cured, the other much relieved, by a new method of applying carbonic acid air / by John Ewart.

Date:
1794
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Credit: The history of two cases of ulcerated cancer of the mamma : one of which has been cured, the other much relieved, by a new method of applying carbonic acid air / by John Ewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. If the pra&ice, prefented to the notice of the Public in the following pages, were fuch as could endanger the life or health, or in any degree injure the perfons, on whom it may be tried, I fhould have with- held what I now publilh, until 1 had ex- perience ol its fuccefs in more cafes. But as it is attended neither by pain or rifk; as it has been fuccefsful in one cafe, and beneficial in another, under circum(lances the mod defperate and deplorable; and as it leems to promife not only a hope of recovery, but immediate relief from tor- ture, m one of the moll excruciating and untra&able maladies incident to human nature. I have thought it would be wrong B si