A practical treatise on diseases of the breasts of women : Containing directions for the proper management of breasts during lying-in, with observations on the present defective methods of practice. Likewise observations on the simple inflammation of the breasts. On the abscess, induration of these parts, and on diseased nipples, with the method of preventing the cancer. Of the schirrus, or cancerous induration, arising from other causes, with mild and successful methods of cure. The whole interspersed with general observations on the method of treating women during child-bed, with a plate of a new invented machine, for more commodiously drawing the milk from the breasts, and forming a nipple. By W. Rowley, surgeon and man-midwife, and surgeon to St. John's Hospital.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowley, William, 1742-1806.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breast--Diseases--Early works to 1800.

Breast.

Women--Health and hygiene--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks) -- England -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55, [1] p., plate )

Other Title:

Practical treatise on diseases of the breasts of women.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for F. Newbery, at No. 20, the corner of St. Paul's Church Yard; and J. Ridley, in St. James's Street, MDCCLXXII. [1772]

Notes:

The titlepage is a cancel.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price One Shilling and Six-Pence.

Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

Roscoe, A469(1)

English Short Title Catalog, N12301.

OCLC:

642119078