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Breast - Cancer - Early works to 1800

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    Practical observations on cancers and disorders of the breast, explaining their different appearances and events. To which are added, one hundred cases, successfully treated without cutting. By Richard Guy, Surgeon, And Member of the Corporation of Surgeons in London. Also Some Remarks on the Effects of Hemlock, Shewing The Inefficacy of that Medicine in Cancerous Complaints. The whole serving as a supplement to a former essay on the Subject, by the same Author, August 1762.

    Guy, Richard (Surgeon) | Date: [1762?]
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    A treatise on the management of female breasts during childbed; and several new observations on cancerous diseases. With prescriptions. To which are added remarks on pretenders to the cure of the cancer. By William Rowley, M.D. Member of the University of Oxford, the Royal College of Physicians in London, &c.

    Rowley, William, 1742-1806. | Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]
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    Thoughts on the cancer of the breast. By George Bell, surgeon, at Redditch.

    Bell, George, surgeon at Redditch. | Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
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    A treatise on cancers; with an account of a new and successful method of operating, particularly in cancers of the breast or testis, by which the Sufferings of the Patient are considerably diminished, the Cure greatly accelerated, and Deformity prevented; by Henry Fearon, surgeon to the Surrey Dispensary.

    Fearon, Henry, -1803. | Date: MDCCXC. [1790]
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