An enquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / By William Nisbet.

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An enquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / By William Nisbet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frequently increafe the violence of the malady* contented themfelves folely with a palliative mode of relief. This has differed in its principles, according to the different ftages of the difeafe. In the firjl, or fchirrous flate, it has been ap- plied to check the progrefs of the tumor by ob- viating inflammation, and relieving pain. In the fecond, or ulcerous flage, the fame end is attempted, by counter aiding debility, and reflraining the power of the Ileclic. Firjl Stage. The indications of the former are executed by aJlriH antiphlogflic courfe, particularly in the ufe of J.mall bleedings from the difeafed part, repeated on any increafe of pain, or figns of increafing in- flammation, fo as to retain the fwelling in an in- dolent flate. With this, is joined the occaflonal exhibition of faline purgatives, of a refrigerant na- ture ; and alfo, though more rarely, mild diapho- retics, to preferve the excretion of furface. This is the pradice ftrongly recommended by Dr Rowley, and is faid to have been even fpecific in a number of inftances. In cafes of pain, an occaflonal anodyne is likewife had recourfe to* Connected with thefe principles, and which might form even part of this courfe, though, as yet little adopted, we have the account from Mr Pouteau, of a curious pradice employed by a Capuchin