An essay on the general method of treating cancerous tumors. In which the opinions of some of the most celebrated authors, who have writ on this subject, are examined, and compared ... Illustrated with several extraordinary cases / By William Norford.

  • Norford, William.
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1753
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Credit: An essay on the general method of treating cancerous tumors. In which the opinions of some of the most celebrated authors, who have writ on this subject, are examined, and compared ... Illustrated with several extraordinary cases / By William Norford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (. io ) dry: The fir ft Intention of Cauterizing, he fays, is to flop the Blood, and the laft is to deftroy all the Remains of the Diftem- per. But he further adds, that Scbirrt may be extirpated by Incifion only *, as in thefe he thinks there is no great Danger of an Haemorrhage, and therefore no Necef- lity for the Cautery *. It is certain that a Cancer, in a bad Habit of Body, is now the moft lament¬ able of all other Difeafes.—But how fhock- ing and deplorable a State muft thofe un- happy People be in, in former Days, who were afflidled with it, and confented to come under the Surgeon’s Hands ? It is evident, that many of the antient Phyfi- cians and Surgeons were Men of the great- eft Parts, and indefatigable Induftry ; and in fome Particulars, perhaps, fuperior to the Moderns: but in many of their chirur- gical Operations, they feem to have adted with little more Knowledge or Judgment than our modern Mountebanks, Cowleeches, or Farriers. § 14. But fuch cruel Methods of operat¬ ing have of late Years been juftly exploded j unlefs in fome very extraordinary Cafes ; great Improvements having been made to * Van §%vieten, &c. p. 850,