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

  • Bell, George
Date:
1788
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Credit: Thoughts on the cancer of the breast / [George Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being unhealthy in itfelf, and ftill further injured by its contents, it becomes obftructed and har- — which often degenerates intg a cancer. Inflammation is fuppofed to be a caufe of {cirrhus and cancer; the firft of thefe, however, feldom happens in this way ; the other, I be-, lieve, is not uncommon. . Inflammation itfelf. arifes from various caufes, and hath termina- tions different from thefe now named : to ani- madvert upon them, would lead. into a wide. field of difcuffion, not immediately connected with this fubse&t. Let it, therefore, fuffice to obferve, that in every inflammation a fenfe of. heat and pain is always implied; that there 1s always an increafed action of the veffels of the inflamed part, fometimes of the whole fyftem ; and that more blood circulates through them in this tate than in health. — To apply thete particulars to the prefent- , point.