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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    will readily unite in a fhort time. But in a large complicated morbid tumor, as a carcinoma in the conglomerate gland, the breafb, it requires not a little attention to difcover minute portions of difeafed glands, or morbid cellular membrane, under a large loofe flap of pendulous (kin; and no fmall dexterity in the operator to remove all thole, apparently infignificant, morbid matters. Frequently, I am afraid, it is not to be accomplifhed; and I am forry to fay that I have feen more than one inftance where the difeafe has returned from this very circumflance, and deflroyed the patient. For which reafon, whenever the bread: is large, and compofed of many cancerous knots, I am induced to prefer the former methods pradtifed by Sharp, Pott, &c. of removing the whole, lkin and all, beyond where the fufpicious appearances about the breaft extend, at once ; and al- though the cure may be protracted there- by, there is certainly a much greater pro- fpedt of the patient’s fafety. Yet after all the operator’s caudon, and the molt flattering