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A new practice of physic. Wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are describ'd, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... In two volumes / by Peter Shaw.

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
Date:
1735
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Credit: A new practice of physic. Wherein the various diseases incident to the human body are describ'd, their causes assign'd, their diagnostics and prognostics enumerated, and the regimen proper in each deliver'd, with a competent number of medicines for every stage and symptom thereof ... : the whole formed on the model of Dr. Sydenham ... In two volumes / by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    piaznotticst moles, from a hard labour, or violence done to the uterus, in extracting the foetus. 3. The ligns of a fcirrhous tumor in the ute¬ rus are, a hardnefs and refiftance in the region thereof; with a fenfe of weight, as tho’ the uterus were going to fall down into the 'pudendum; which is chiefly obferyable when the patient {lands upright: but upon' fitting or lying, the weight prefles the intefiinum redhm. This gene¬ rally fubiills without a fever, or violent pain; which diftinguifhes it from an inflammation of the fame part. If it proceeds from obftrudtions, *tis known by the fymptoms that precede or accompany it. If it affe&s ' the neck of the uterus, ’tis known by that part being in- creafed in bulk, and feeling hard to the touch; and if it has feized the bottom of the uterus, it may be felt by prefling the hand upon the region of the os pubis. 5Tis diftinguifhed from a mole, becaufe in the latter, if the rnenfes flow at all it is very irregularly; the breafts fwell, and fornetimes contain milk; but in the cafe of a fcirrhous tumor in the uterus, if the menfes appear, they flow regularly, and at their ufual periods; and the breafts are now generally lefs than ordinary. When this tumor is inclinable to degenerate into a cancer or ulcer, the pain augments, grows acute, (harp and pricking; and if the tumor is in the neck of the uterus, appears unequal, not unlike a duller of grapes, and of a livid, or black colour; the veins furrounding it are blackifh, fweil’d, and appear as fo many roots proceeding from it; and laftly, when it fuppurates, or turns into a cancerous ulcer, it ouzes out a famous matter, of a brown or blac¬ kish colour, very fetid, not unirequently purulent, 6t mixed with blood; and fornetimes, if any of the large veflels fhould be corroded, fuch a quan¬ tity of blood flows,jis endangers the patient’s life. - -T