An account and method of cure of the bronchocele, or, Derby-neck : with some reasons attempted, for considering the bronchocele and dropsy of the ovarium, as kindred diseases, and a plate accurately engraved, representing the figure of the disease / by Thomas Prosser.

  • Prosser, Thomas (Civil engineer)
Date:
1782
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Credit: An account and method of cure of the bronchocele, or, Derby-neck : with some reasons attempted, for considering the bronchocele and dropsy of the ovarium, as kindred diseases, and a plate accurately engraved, representing the figure of the disease / by Thomas Prosser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    But having, 1 think, given fuch a defcription of the natu- ral cr curable Bronchocele, as will enable any one to know it from other complaints fomething like it; I proceed to the cure, which when the difeafe exadlly anfwers the defcription here given of it, and its continuance has not been too long, I think I may fay will very rarely fail; and farther experi- ence. well warrants the confident manner, I fpoke of fuccefs, in the firfl publication of this pamphlet. I have known feveral completely cured at very near the age of twenty-five years, which was more than twelve years, after the firft appear- ance of the tumor of the neck ; but yet, at that age, I be- lieve the cure is uncertain; and beyond it, though but a very few years, more doubtful. Many, no doubt, lead miferable lives, under the almoft intolerable torments of fome tedious perplexing diford ers, for want, of purfuing long enough, let the remedies applied be ever fo proper and likely, for them to receive confiderable benefit, it is fuppofed no one can objebt againft the mede- cines prepared here for their cure, on account of time, or other observations neceffary in their ufe, when they are informed, fix weeks is generally the longefl time; and little confinement, or hardly any other reftraint from the ufual way of living is required. Let