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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    ■Jr A TREATISE, &c. THERE has been one common me¬ thod of treating complaints of the breads that happen in lying-in, from the time of Hippocrates y a period of near two thoufand years: if, however, it was not in many points defective* the anti¬ quity of the practice would be no objec¬ tion to it. In this Treatile, then, we in¬ tend to explain how deficient the com¬ mon methods are, and to recommend a better practice i for if the accidents that happen to thefe parts, were more pro¬ perly attended to on their firft appearance, the cancer of the breads, with all its mi- ferable fymptoms, would be lefs frequent than is now experienced, Thofe who are veiled in the hidory of medicine, and acquainted with the dif¬ ferent purfuits of medical men fines the federation of learning,' might .conclude, that this branch was well underdood $ R but