A second appendix to the successful treatment of cancer : to which are added, a few remarks on the improved treatment of fistula / by John Pattison.

  • Pattison, John
Date:
1859
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Credit: A second appendix to the successful treatment of cancer : to which are added, a few remarks on the improved treatment of fistula / by John Pattison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon strictly scientific principles and common sense. Every means have been taken by some to brand me as a quack; and Mr. Churchill, the publisher of the late incomplete and crude Medical Directories, for the last six years has refused to insert my name among those practising in England. Fortunately, a ‘ To the Editor of the Monthly Komceopathic Review. “Sir,—My attention has been directed to an article in your Review for this month, entitled‘Secret Remedies, and Cancer Curing,’ by Dr. Samuel Cockburn, of Dundee. My willingness to explain to any duly-qualified gentleman my mode of treatment for cancer, upon personal application to me, refutes all the accusations of secrecy or quackery that are brought against me. I consider that I am the proper judge as to how and when I ought to publish, in full, the modus operandi of my practice. The small pamphlet which Dr. Cockburn has so kindly reviewed was written for the public. At present I am engaged oil a more extensive work for the profession, in which the minutite of my treatment will be fully detailed, and the facts I advocate proved by numerous cases. When this work is completed, and the remedy has been proved by qualified and disinterested persons, then, and not until then, do I consider myself justified in publishing the details of my practice;— otherwise, from its injudicious use and abuse, it would certainly fall into disrepute The agent I employ is the hydrastis Canadensis, to which you have given the synonyme of ‘ yellow puccoon.’ Puccoon may be one of its synonymes, but it is a very different plant from the puccoon (sanguinarea) that was lately introduced by a foreign adventurer into the Middlesex Hospital as a specific for cancer. This puc- coon has been proved by the surgeons of that hospital to be totally inert, and it was only used as a blind to conceal the real agent—the ‘ chloride of zinc.’ The hydrastis Canadensis belongs to the natural order of Ranunculace®, whilst sanguinarea belongs to the order of Papaveracese. Sanguinarea is totally inert, and has been used in allopathy as a colouring medium for some of their pretty though nauseating draughts: the hydrastis Canadensis, on the other hand, will prove to be one of the most valuable agents that has been introduced into the homoeopathic pharma- copoeia for many years; for not only is it a specific in cancerous disease, but it is invaluable in the first and second stages of phthisis pulmonalis, in all inflammations of mucous membranes, and in some others of these troublesome complaints that have long baffled the profession. “I am, Sir, your obedient servant, “ Sept. 28, 1859.” Pvr™°'*’ M-D- ‘‘[We insert Dr. Pattison’s note with very great pleasure. Our authority for sailing the hydrastis Canadensis ‘yellow puccoon,’ is Dr. Thomas, of Chester who, in his ‘Additions to the Homoeopathic Materia Medica,’ gives it that sv’ aonyme.—Ed.] ” “ To the Editor of the Komceopathic Review. ;Sir:h° ?ri3al 0f a paper by Dr- Cockburn- of Dundee, and also of another 7 Dr. Tuthill Massy, in the last number of the Monthly Komwopathic Review, upon C