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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    at Pe op ee et SMe, eg + Ls 7 the attention from fear and forrow, which mutt otherwife aggravate all her mifery, : __. In thefe cafes, it will be neceffary to pay a particular regard to diet, as great mifchief may arife from indigeftion, from ftimulating fube ftances, and from acid or putrefcent acrimony : __ when any diforder from thefe is difcovered, it - fhould be fpeedily removed, by the mildeft and moft-approved means. The ftate of the alimentary canal demands likewife particular attention, to prevent fuch evils as may arife from coftivenefs, or purging. To obviate the firft, a mild cathartic will be ufeful occafionally. in regard to the other, if a diarrhoea happens to take place, and no caufe can be difcovered, it fhould be confidered as an effort of nature, to evacuate from the fyftem fomething that is -hurtful—poffibly fluids viti- ated by the cancer, and derived from the genes ral mafs into the cavity of the inteftines. And, there-