Illustrations of the diseases of the breast ... Part 1 / by Sir Astley Cooper.

Date:
1829
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Illustrations of the diseases of the breast ... Part 1 / by Sir Astley Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

    19/148 page 5
    The first of these classes comprehends the acute inflamma- tion of the organ, as the milk abscess; the chronic inflamma- tion, which remains for a length of time in a state of indolent swelling, and often terminates after a lapse of weeks or months in an indolent abscess; and, thirdly, a lacteal tumour, in which a chronic inflammation is followed by an obstruction in one of the lactiferous tubes, and produces a large lacteal or lactiferous swelling. In the second class of diseases of the breast we find several species of tumour, and they are as follow:—■ 1st, the Hydatid. 2d, the Chronic Mammary Tumour. 3d, the Ossific. 4th, the Adipose. 5th, Large and pendulous Breast. 6th, the Scrofulous. 7th, the Irritable Breast. 8th, Ecchymosis of the Breast. In the third Class we find the two malignant diseases, which consist of the scirrhous and fungous tubercle. It will be my object in the following pages, with the aid of engravings, to detail the symptoms, describe the external cha- racters, and exhibit the internal appearances of each of these diseases, so far as I have been able to observe and examine Acute in- flammation. Chronic in- flammation. Lactiferous swelling. Specific^ but not malignant. Malignant Tumours.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3