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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    affected. at once. The firft of thefe may con- tinue for many years, perhaps through life, and the others a confiderable time, without any pain, or inconvenience, till fome flimulus i is applied ; and yet not unfrequently, withwae any. percep- tible caufe, the difeafe fhall take an unfavour- able turn, and be very foon in the wort ftate. | The fymptoms of a ates {cirrhus, and approaching cancer, are thefe: The part feels. unufually hard, with a very unequal furface. The nipple, in place. of being feated upon a round prominence, as ufual, is drawn inwards, but chiefly towards the part moft affe€ted; this occafions a confiderable, but unequal depreflion. around it. At uncertain periods, fometimes, fooner, fometimes later, flight pricking pains, are felt : thefe arife. from the ftimulus of the ~ poifon that i is Now forming 1 in the part, firkt af- feéted, By degrees, this poifonous fluid i is I>. creafed in quantity, and becomes more virue, lent 5 in confequence thereof the pains are, more %