Thoughts on the cancer of the breast / [George Bell].

  • Bell, George
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Thoughts on the cancer of the breast / [George Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When a prominent breaft is bathed, the cif- tern fhould be full but not run over, by the immerfion of the breaft and agit-tion of the water.— ‘When a flat breaft is bathed, the fur- face of the water fhould be no higher than nearly up to a level with the orifices in the ifuing part of the engine -—Sometimes it will be proper to put a heated iron plate under the ciftern, to preferve, or to reftore the necefla- ry warmnefs of the water.—The ciftern fhould be fet upon a ftand of iuch a height as will raile it up. to the bed-ick or canvas on which the patient is laid: whena flat breaftis bathed, it need not be fo high as the engine will raife the water soonaiaaé to the em afiected, t RRRATA