The practice of surgery . Fig. 333.—External appearance of cancer of breast. Removed by Jacksons method (personal case).. Fig. 334.—Operation for cancer of the breast; shows pectoralis major muscle (per-sonal case). describes an interesting incision which I have now adopted; but it isneedless further to enumerate the countless modifications and sugges-tions upon this subject by recent writers. 522 THE CHEST In spite of tho improvement in our statistics surgeons have not restedcontent with the results of radical breast operations, and numerousand carefully conducted investigations on other line
The practice of surgery . Fig. 333.—External appearance of cancer of breast. Removed by Jacksons method (personal case).. Fig. 334.—Operation for cancer of the breast; shows pectoralis major muscle (per-sonal case). describes an interesting incision which I have now adopted; but it isneedless further to enumerate the countless modifications and sugges-tions upon this subject by recent writers. 522 THE CHEST In spite of tho improvement in our statistics surgeons have not restedcontent with the results of radical breast operations, and numerousand carefully conducted investigations on other lines of treatment con-stantly are being made. So far such endeavors have accomplishedlittle. The a:-rays, violet rays, and radium are nearly valueless, thoughthey may relieve pain; and the much-vaunted trypsin injections of Beardare not making good the claims of their original advocate. A few jearsago Beatsons operation^ seemed to promise something. Beatsons opera-tion consists in removing the ovaries for the supposed effect which theloss of those organs has upon the epithelial cells in the breast. Al-though a few ca
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