Cancer : its nature and treatment, with observations on certain diseases peculiar to women / by John Pattison, M.D.

  • Pattison, John
Date:
1863
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Credit: Cancer : its nature and treatment, with observations on certain diseases peculiar to women / by John Pattison, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10] the womb. She had been cauterised very frequently^ which caused her great pain. Her sufferings were so severe that she could not sit up for any length of tirne^ from the discharge being so profuse, and so highly offensive. Upon examina- tion, I found the gre.ater portion of the neck of the womb had been destroyed, and the remainder affected with true can- cerous ulceration. The neighbouring parts had been much injured by the caustics, and one portion was also affected by the disease. In this case there was little hope of cure, but only relief. I commenced my course of treatment on the 36th of March, 1854, and in three weeks the sufferer was sitting up in her drawing-room. As the pain slowly dis- appeared, the narcotics were given up at nights by degrees, so that her appetite and general health improved; and in the course of four months she was able to be removed into the country. I did not see this lady again. She lived for about a year after this, and I have heard that she suffered little or no pain to the time of her death. I adduce one other instance of mitigation of a fatal case; as it will be admitted that when a disease of such a malignant character becomes inveterate and incurable, either from neg- lect or mal-practice, there is some consolation in knowing that any extreme agony, consequent on such a condition, may be mitigated, and the last days of existence not embittered by any excessive suffering. Canceu op the Tongue. Mrs. had a cancer of the tongue, and she came up to London to place herself under ray care on the 14th of July, 1856. The tongue was involved to a frightful extent with the disease. Professor , a provincial surgeon in Edin- burgh (strange to say) refused to operate. I at first refused interference with the case, and she went to Mr. E , who proposed an operation. To this her brother, the Rev. Mr. , would not listen, and seeing her again afterwards.
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