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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    f THE MILK BREAS T. -St f #• . » - a more expeditious mode of treating thefe complaints. On looking over my manufeript papers, I found in fome notes taken from the late Dodipr Didier’s* ledtures on the Materia Medica, that fait ammoniac diflolved in Hungary-water, was faid to poflefs the property of keeping the milk fluid. I determined to make the experiment the firft opportunity. In the mean while I tried how much fait ammoniac a given quantity of Hungary water would difiolve, and found that water alone took up a much larger quantity of the fait, and kept it fufpended better than the fpirit. Suppofing that the virtue of the application refided chiefly in the fait, upon the firft occafion I ufed it in the following manner. I dire&ed three ounces of fait ammoniac to be diflolved in a pint of common water, to which an equal quantity of Hungary water was added. Rags dipped in this liquor made a little warm, were applied to the whole furface of the breaft. Thefe rags were wetted again as often as they became dry. The firft cafe I tried this application in, was a coagulation of the milk foon after lying-in, before any fuppuration had been formed. I loon found the confirmation of Dodtor Didier’s aflertion, that this folution had the property of keeping the milk fluid; for, after.it had been applied a few hours, the grumous feel was difperfed, and the breaft reftored to its natural ftate, while the milk flowed freely from the nipple. I tried the fame method in a great number of cafes where I was called in befoie the fuppuration was formed, and never yet knew it fail. Among others, Mrs, H——, who had fuffered fo much from one of thefe com- plaints, and whofe cafe ftands the fecond in the fecond part of this treadle, was brought to bed about a year after I had firft attended her. Her hufi- band having received a violent bruife on the ancle, fent to confult me. The firft day I favv him happened to be the day after (he had been de- livered. I found her very much alarmed, and dreading the former fuf- fenngs fhe had gone through ; for her breafts were now as much fwelled * As I have occafion to mention that gentleman’s name, I cannot avoid paying a tribute to the memory of genius, induftry, and a number of amiable virtues, which he polfelfed in m eminent degree. His premature and much-lamented death deprived fociety of one of its moil valuable members, and the profelfion of one of its bell ornaments.