Tumours of the Breast, and Their Treatment and Cure by Medicines

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Epps, 1888 - 213 páginas
 

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Página 7 - I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married, and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Página 34 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Página 175 - ... child. But Nature is fierce when she is offended, as she is bounteous and kind when she is obeyed. She spares neither woman nor child. She has no pity : for some awful, but most good reason, she is not allowed to have any pity. Silently she strikes the sleeping child, with as little remorse as she would strike the strong man, with the musket or the pickaxe, in his hand. Ah, would to God that some...
Página 200 - Mr Jonathan Hutchinson, FRS, desired to make the proposition that the internal administration of Arsenic in large doses over long periods might produce a form of cancer which was of the epithelial variety, but presented certain peculiarities. He showed a drawing of the foot of a gentleman who had taken Arsenic for psoriasis for many years ; a corn on the sole of the foot ulcerated, and at first had the appearance of perforating ulcer. Perfect immobility was not followed by any improvement. The palms...
Página 174 - ... she kills, and kills, and kills, and is never tired of killing ; till she has taught man the terrible lesson he is so slow to learn, that Nature is only conquered by obeying her.
Página 202 - ... parenthetically, were corns, not warts, and the growths were never papillary. This patient then got on the front of the wrist of the left hand a growth in the subcutaneous tissue, the other hand also became affected; the growths perforated the skin and fungated ; they had the appearance of a syphilitic lesion, but the patient had never had that disease. The growths were scraped away and also excised ; microscopical examination was again at first inconclusive, but the opinion finally leaned to...
Página 184 - ... of old scars ; thirst is either absent or increased for small quantities. " Worse in the morning ; also from warmth ? "Better from cold water and pressure. Left side. "Has been used in many varieties of tumour, perhaps with a special adaptability to cystic formations. I have used it in cases of cancerous ulceration with good results a number of times. You will find a case of ovarian tumour reported cured by this agent in the North American Jour, of Horn., vol. xxi., p. 553, by Dr Piersons ; also...
Página 184 - ... and scanty ; erysipelatous inflammation of the surrounding skin ; dark purple colour of old scars ; thirst is either absent or increased for small quantities. " Worse in the morning ; also from warmth ? "Better from cold water and pressure. Left side. "Has been used in many varieties of tumour, perhaps with a special adaptability to cystic formations. I have used it in cases of cancerous ulceration with good results a number of times. You will find a case of ovarian tumour reported cured by this...
Página 188 - Tumours occurring in the characteristic calcarea individual. Tendency to boils ; to take cold easily ; deficient animal heat ; cold feet ; perspiration of the feet and head particularly ; pus is copious, putrid, yellowish, or white like milk ; similar to Baryt.

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