O Methodo Facilimo e Experimental, para curar a maligna enfermidade do cancro : um caso de literatura médico-cirúrgica portuguesa de meados do século XVIII : a case of portuguese surgical literature in the mid-XVIIIth century

Abstract

This article intends to show and analyze what seems to be the first surgical treaty about cancer written in Portuguese language. Although the translation of a seventeen-century French text, it is possible to detect the status quo of breast cancer surgery of the time. In the end, one presents the full transcription of the document.