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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    {ae =4 fyringe, the beft method will be to put the whole difeafed part into water. This may be prone, at full length, upon canvafs faftened to a frame like a bedftead ; this canvafs having an opening, to allow the breaft to be immerfed in a warm bath, immediately below it. If the breaft is naturally flat, or is fo much confumed _ the water may be raifed, and applied to it, with very nearly the fame advantage as if the breaft itfelf was immerfed. While the patient’s breaft is in the bath, fhe will be eafy and comfortable, from an agreeable fenfation arifing from the water itfelf, but more the cancerous ichor, that kept her before in a continual agony and burning heat. By the poles of bathing are beft accomplifhed : in this way there is a depending drain, and, as fluids naturally Ne