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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    PF aio : After the gland is become {cirrhous, or a vitiated ulcer hath taken place, by fome fur- ther morbid procefs, a poifon of a particular “fort is formed therein, moft probably from fluids that did ftagnate, and: poflibly from the fubftance of the difeafed gland, or {cirrhus it- felf. This poifon, whatever it may be, is the | ‘proximate caufe of all the pain and ulceration which afterwards take place. This and the . ferous part of the blood which is thrown out upon it, form a moft corrofive fluid, the effects . of which will be mentioned hereafter. The extent of a fcirrhus in the breaft, and how long it may continue without pain, or be- fore it terminates in cancer, are very uncer- tain points. Sometimes a very {mall part of a gland is affetted, and fpreads no further ; at other times, a fmall {cirrhofity is gradually and greatly extended, by the fame diforder a taking place in the adjacent glands ; in other cafes, a large portion of glandular fubftance is ( : Cc aftected