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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    : [ea 9 In time of bathing, it will be proper to cir- culate, or move the water gently in the veffel, without moving the veffel itfelf : by this ma- nagement, there will not be always a column of : foul water next the ulcer, and while the greater _ part of it continues fit for ufe, the fore will hhave the benefit of the whole before it is thrown. away, to amore room for w hat 18 clean. ‘To this fhort treatife, 1 have added a {ketch of a cheap and convenient apparatus for bath! ing; but, where this cannot be had, olbere: fhould be ufed. For inflance, if the difeafed breaft is prominent, a common earthen pot is no defpicable thing, and may anfwer the pur- . pole tolerably well. But when a flat breaft 1 is to be bathed, other expedients will be neceffary : in ‘this cafe fone very foft linen will be ufeful, either one picce folded, or different pieces laid fmooth upon each other, to a confiderable. thicknefs, and fo broad as to reach beyond the - seen g limits WO