The answer of Richard Guy ... to certain invidious falshoods and reflections upon his method of curing cancers without cutting / lately published in an introduction to the Essays, etc. of Thomas Gataker.

  • Guy, Richard (Surgeon)
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1764
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Credit: The answer of Richard Guy ... to certain invidious falshoods and reflections upon his method of curing cancers without cutting / lately published in an introduction to the Essays, etc. of Thomas Gataker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 2 4 ] A Lady now under my Care, a Relation to, and recommended by Mr. Lee, an ingenious, and eminent Surgeon, at Mile-End, London, had then a retraced Cancer in her Bread, which has fince been extirpated by my Method, and is now near well. She has had no Fever at all, nor fo much Pain as to pre¬ vent her from coming daily to' my Houfe to;be drefled. Mr, Lee candidly confeff- ed his Approbation of my Method, know¬ ing a Lady now living in his Neighbour¬ hood, whom I formerly cured of this Diforder, which induced him, as I conceive, to give the Preference to my Method, not fuffering his Relation to be loft, in Compliment to a few others, alike worthy in their Principles with Mr. Gataker. Mr. Page, a judicious and experienced Sur¬ geon and (I believe) Senior Surgeon to the Hojpital at Brijlol, having been Witnefs of my Succefs in extirpating a Ca?icer from the Bread: of a Lady, Sifter to a noble Earl, was thence induced to bring his Niece to London for my Advice, fhe being afflidted with a Can¬ cer on her Face, which had deftroyed about half the End of her Nofe, together with near the whole Noftril, and fpreading upwards to the Eye-lid, to the great Deformity of a beau¬ tiful Face, the young Lady being about twenty Years of age. He firft took the Opinions of two of the moil eminent Surgeons at St. James's A - End
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