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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    [ 5° ] cities, and find, after fach treatment, that the V • * Dilution nq^: Suppuration fhould not fucceed; would you not think it necefiary to puilue other Met-as, that the Patient might be relieved from the Apprehenhon of future Dangers ? furely if you did not, and thefe Dangers fhould enlue, your Condudt would deferve the fevered Cenfure; for Women, who are no judges of fuch Events themfelves, generally rely on the Skill and Integrity of thofe, whom they coniuit; and after being informed in a Cafe qf that kind, that there is no Danger to be apprehended, they will not be alarmed, even tho’ they obfei ve,that the Difeafe manifedly gains Ground, if Pain does not happen to ac¬ company it at the fame Time. And therefore, I think, that I have rendered a confiderable Piece of Service to my Fellow Creatures, in edablifhing the above Principles, as a Rule to be confidekd by every- one, that profeffes the Practice of Phyjtck and Surgery. And though this may through Ignorance, or Want of Experience, be difeouraged by Ibme for a Time, I am flill in no Doubt, but that it will meet with a general Aflent hereafter, fee¬ ing I have never argued upon the Point, with the fenfible Part of the Faculty, in vain : and you yoUrfelf have concurred with me in the fame Sentiments, when I told you, that the fa¬ tal Events, and the Difficulty, fo often attend¬ ing the Cure of Cancers, were for the mod Part owing
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