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 metho 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

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 metho 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.

Author/creator	Rowley, William, 1742-1806
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	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]
Description	55 pages, 1 unnumbered page, plate ; 8⁰.
Supplemental Content	Full text online
Subject(s)	Women--Health and hygiene --Early works to 1800. Breast--Diseases --Early works to 1800.

General note	The titlepage is a cancel.
General note	Reproduction of original from the Countway Library of Medicine.
References	Roscoe, A469(1)
References	English Short Title Catalog, ESTCN12301.
Reproduction note	Joyner- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Genre/form	Manuals (Handbooks) England 18th century.

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