Important discovery! : cure for cancers, scrofula and tumors, absesses, felons, boils, corns, &c., &c., with a plaster, healing-salves, and internal medicines / John Lord.

  • Lord, John, active 19th century.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Important discovery! : cure for cancers, scrofula and tumors, absesses, felons, boils, corns, &c., &c., with a plaster, healing-salves, and internal medicines / John Lord. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As a false philosophy must necessarily, lead to false practice, I deem it no difficult task to convince the common sense of the common people, that the too free, or irrevelent use of even the best medicines, is injurious very injurious indeed. How much more then of the thousand and one, deadly, and destructive things, called medicines, which are blindly administered by the dic- tates of false pathology. Something, it is thought, must be done — and a recipe, couched in latin, is sent to the apothecary, and the patient gets and takes, he knows not what. All tumors—cancers and tubercular affec- tions are declared and believed to be mere local evi- dences of a general vitiation of the system. Hence, constitutional treatment is recommended and resorted to, in all cases of tumor and tubercular affections whether Scrofulous, Schirhus, fungoid, ensysted or whatever else—a false philosophy throws them all alike into the dark, and dictates a blind hit or 7tiiss treatment, in an endless dosing with regular, botanic, patent or quack medicines—not much matter what ! In most cases all is irrevelant, and consequently injurious in more ways than one—but more especially is this true of malignant tumours, in tbat, the day of salvation is nearly lost by the whiling away of time. But more of this in the sequel. Now for the Certificates. The first eight of the following Certificates wev: given or sent to me, at or soon after their date, and published in Boston, in the spring of 1841, at which lime all the persons named in them were alive and well, except the old lady, No. 7, who had died, but not of her Cancer, but as I was informed, of another div