Minutes of cases of cancer and cancerous tendency, successfully treated by Samuel Young .. / with a prefatory letter addressed to the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital, by Samuel Whitbread.

  • Young, Samuel.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Minutes of cases of cancer and cancerous tendency, successfully treated by Samuel Young .. / with a prefatory letter addressed to the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital, by Samuel Whitbread. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Feb. 21.—The appearances altogether better. The diseased structure both of the right breast and side clearing away most rapidly. The sore of the chest contracting, and though deeply marked with the cancerous character in its centre, by confused structure and action, evinced by abrupt projections, holes, and still deeper excavations, yet still, about the edges, where the slough has long been detached, and new actions progressively succeeded, a healthy appearance is established. The parts in immediate connexion, and form- ing particularly the chain of disease leading to the right breast, losing their morbid hardness. The diseased and complicated structure leading from the sore of the left breast round the side, and up to the back part of the axilla, most astonishingly improved. The discharge excessive, but not so violent as the last two days ; and its ofFensiveness checked by the use of the charcoal. The night good. Some se- vere fits of coughing; but, upon the whole, tolerably quiet. The spitting still continues. The pulse and general strength, under all these circumstances, very good. Spirits low, but not so irritable as yesterday. The general me- dicine continued, and the saline in effervescence occasionally taken. The pressure pursued. Unceasing, laborious, and anxious as the at-