Note 127 — DISSERTATION VI.
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It was supposed, that when the menses were obstructed, the impurities were sent by communicating vessels to the breast, where they lodged, and produced cancer. Vide Vesalii Opera, p. 1092. Fabricius de Tum. p. 118.
Le Dran observes, that when schirrus, from any cause, takes place in the breast, before the cessation of the menses, it uniformly becomes more painful when any irregularity of that discharge occurs. Vide Memoires de l’Acad. de Chirurg. Tom. III. p. 22.