The plan [proposed by John Howard] adopted by the governors ... for the relief of persons afflicted with cancer.

  • Middlesex Hospital
Date:
1792
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Credit: The plan [proposed by John Howard] adopted by the governors ... for the relief of persons afflicted with cancer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    annexed, has been long, much too long, neglected. Two defcriptions of women, labouring under cancer, have been mentioned in the former paper, in both of which the difeafe proceeds with rapidity. One compre¬ hends cafes, where the tumours are mo¬ veable, admitting relief by operation if done early enough. The other takes in fpreading ulcerated cancers, not movea¬ ble, which cannot be operated upon with fafety; and, from the prefent confined ilate of our knowledge of the means of cure, may be deemed incurable. The periods, when diffolution takes place in thefe lafc cafes, vary in different perfons; but humanity, as well as the hope of dif- covering fomething more than we know at prefent refpecting the treatment of this difeafe, require, that fuch patients be not hurried out of the hofpital und^r an idea B 4 that
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