Observations on scrophulous affections : with remarks on schirrus, cancer, and rachitis / by Robert Hamilton.

Date:
1791
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Credit: Observations on scrophulous affections : with remarks on schirrus, cancer, and rachitis / by Robert Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have not feen any fimilar cafes to any of thofe lately 5 but if any offer, fhtl.ll certainly try the effeft of the hem- lock bath. SECTION VI. WHEN ftrumous glands became fchirrous, and that fchirrus pain- ful, I have always found that an early extirpation of the tumor by the knife was the fafeft, and confequently the belt pfac- tice. And whenever this painful and ne- glefted fchirrus had degenerated into a- cancer, that the fame practice, the extir- pation, was the only one that could fafely be depended on. If the cancer had been from delay or negleft buffered to ulcerate, the operation then became a doubtful ex- pedient ; becaufe, if the ulceration was of long Handing, the acrid matter had pro- bably been abforbed from it, and the whole habit, by the medium of the lymphatic fyflera.