Observations on the cancerous breast. Consisting chiefly of original correspondence between the author and Dr. Baillie, Mr. Cline, Dr. Babington, Mr. Abernethy, and Dr. Stokes / Published by permission of the writers. With an introductory letter to Mr. Pitcairn.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818
Date:
1801
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Credit: Observations on the cancerous breast. Consisting chiefly of original correspondence between the author and Dr. Baillie, Mr. Cline, Dr. Babington, Mr. Abernethy, and Dr. Stokes / Published by permission of the writers. With an introductory letter to Mr. Pitcairn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of various fizes floating in the liquor, feems to prove that they are originally formed there, and not in the coats of the hydatid, upon which they are afterwards depofited. The number of thole that had young ones in them, was few in proportion to the others. The hydatids in their growth and decay appear to pafs through various ftages; they are firll found floating in the fluid that fills the hydatid, and afterwards attached to its coats. The hydatid thus pregnant wdth young, if the exprefTion may be allowed, ad- heres to the neighbouring parts, increafes in fize, and becomes itfelf a fiic, containing nu- merous fmall hydatids. Thefe after a cer- tain time decay, and the fkins or empty bags are fqueezed together into a fubftance like ifmglafs. It is probable they flill undergo a further change ; two fmall bodies of the fize of the common bean, of a chcefe-like con- fiftencc, and covered withafkin, were taken notice of adhering to the bladder near its neck; it may be a queflion whether thofc were not the remains of hydatids ? but that muft be determined by future obfervations. B 4 It