Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston.

  • Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah), -1786
Date:
1789
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Credit: Surgical tracts ... Consisting of I. Outlines of the history of surgery. II. An essay on inflammation and abcess. III. A dissertation on the effects of motion and rest, and their application to the purposes of surgery ... by M. David, with copious ... annotations. IV. Observations on counter-strokes. V. On the methods employed in treating cancerous diseases, including remarks on the cure of indurations of the breast / The whole collected and interspersed with occasional notes and observations by William Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to keep the part in the fame (late it was in, a little more than a year after fhe began the proceis. Mrs. H. aged 30, applied to me on the 19th of October, 1773. She had been feized with a fever nine days after her lying-in. This brought on an abfcefs in the left breaft, which got well in about a fortnight, and when the difcharge was nearly flopped, fhe found a fwelling come on in the right breaft. It was then very painful and much fwelled even under the arm-pit. Linfeed and bread and milk poultices had been aftiduoufly applied for more than two months, which though they alleviated the pain, yet ftill the fwelling remained invariably the fame. When I exa- mined her, there was an oblong indurated tumour, very hard to the touch, about four inches in length, and extending acrofs the nipple. Imagining this to be a milk breaft, I tried at firft the application I com- monly ufed in thofe cafes, and of which an account fhall be given in the third part of this work. It was continued more than a fortnight with- out producing any fenfible effedt. But as it was not ufual with me to fee that application perfifted in fo long in milk breafts, without perceiving fome alteration, I fupplied my patient with fome of the liquid before de- ferred, directing her to dip a double rag in it, and lay it all over the tu- mour, and to wet the rag as often in the day as the fkin would bear it; taking the precaution of guarding the nipple either with a piece of dry lint or a pledget of fome foft ointment, left the liquor fhould excoriate it. In a few days the tumour began infenfibly to melt away, and in lefs than three weeks had totally difappeared. Ann Highland, aged 29, came into the hofpital in the year 1773, with a laro-e indurated tumour in the breaft, eleven months after giving fuck to two children. In the beginning of the eleventh month the children were feized with the fmall pox. Soon after this (he perceived a fwelling in her breaft, which in three weeks burft into five different apertures, and difeharged a fmall quantity of matter. She ufed a bread and milk poultice for more than two months without effeft, before fhe applied to me. When I faw her, all the original orifices were ftill open, and there 3 B 2 was