An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young.

Date:
1805
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the female breast we find a circle of active systems, surrounded and imbedded bv an inactive mass: the breasts consisting of a congeries of glands and their lactiferous tu- buli, surrounded and connected with a quan- tity of adipose and cellular membrane ; the first possessing, in common with other se- creting organs, the principle of life in a high degree, and also having the peculiarities at- tendant on irregular secretions; whilst the latter (the adipose and cellular membrane) is in itself passive, and has the principle of life but sparingly distributed. Let us then suppose an injury sustained in such a part, not sufficient to stimulate the common mass into action, (so that indamma- tiou and abscess might be the consequence,) yet so far effectual as to rouse one of these little susceptible glands :■—Nineteen in twenty, perhaps, of such instances might happen without any ill consequences; or, at the worst, might proceed to a certain point, and then be resolved by absorption : yet a twen- tieth might become so entangled, that a per-