A practical treatise on the diseases of the breasts : containing directions for the management of women during lying-in; with the methods of curing the inflammation, abscess, and schirrus of the breasts / by William Rowley, M.D. and Man-Midwife.

  • Rowley, William, 1742-1806.
Date:
1777
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the breasts : containing directions for the management of women during lying-in; with the methods of curing the inflammation, abscess, and schirrus of the breasts / by William Rowley, M.D. and Man-Midwife. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 3§ 1 Qf the Indurations of the Breasts, which happen from various Caufes. H ’ IT T would be difficult to determine the A original caufe of thefe cafes, feme are imagined to arife from a blow, others from a peculiarity in the conditution ; but whatever may be the caufes, the cure in general is the fame, I have feen in fiances of filial! indurations in the breads, which are very hard and loofe in young people, rend every internal medicine which has been adniiniftered. What is the con* Sequence of fuch cafes I have not as yet had proper opportunity to fully inform rnyfelf, but the fir idled obfervations are making for this purpofe. In other in¬ dances, the cure is eafdy performed by the remedies recommended in the cure of the hardnefs. Practitioners in general have been often too free in cutting for the fchirrus of the breads; this complaint ought to be left to nature, if internal re¬ medies fhould not fucceed, onlefs attend- ed with great pain. From cbfervaticn I V. .4 • - -* • ’ am; V * 3 1