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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    therefore, the patient fhould be advifed; to afi every fuch effort, by drinking plentifully of : mild watery fluids, or pure water itfelf, to di- lute, and wafh out of the body, the. ftimu- lating acrimony; at the fame time, it. will be neceflary to adminifter fuch medicines as are proper, to defend thofe parts from the irritation thereof: in this view, I fhould prefer to every thing, a mild vegetable mucilage, combined with bland oil, as in the arabic emulfion, but with thefe ingredients in a much larger proportion than ufual. If the difcharge is uncommonly offenfive, and the patient is not funk thereby, it fhould be fuffered to continue, while there is reafon to believe it is falutary. But, on the firft appearance of debili », or if there was great relaxation previous to the purging, it fhould be reftrained, and gradually. fappictiead in this cafe, aftringents will be ufeful: opiates, and mucilaginous glyfters, will alfo be ferviceable, to diminifh or take off the irritation that keeps up the purging.. Opiates will not only be ufe- i: ful