The old methods of treating cancer compared with the new / by John Pattison.

  • Pattison, John
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[1857]
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Credit: The old methods of treating cancer compared with the new / by John Pattison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    my dear mother nhvaj's thought and spoke most highly of you, and your skill has alleviated sufferings that might have been dreadful, which I thank God they were not, at any period of her illness when under yoLU- care. I hope that you will meet with the success in your pro- fession that you deserve.” C,iSE XCV. ]\Ii's. ■ . 34th March, 1854. Upon visiting this lady this day, I found her in bed, suffering great agony. Had been cauterised very frequently, which caused great pain. Iler sufferings were so severe that she could not sit up for any length of time—the discharge profuse, and liighly offensive. Upon examination, found the greater portion of the neck of the Avomb had been destroyed, and the remainder affectedWith true cancerous ulceration. The neighbourino- parts had been much injured by the caustics, and one portion also affected by the disease. In this ease I could giA^e no hope of cure, but only relief. I comraeneed treatment on the 36th March, 1854, and in the course of tln-ee weeks the sufferer was sitting up in her drawing- room. Pains slowly disappeared. The narcotics were given up at nights by degrees, so that her appetite and general health improved; and in the course of four months she Avas able to be removed into, the country, I did not see this lady again. She lived for about a year after this, and I have heard that she suffered little or no pain to the time of her death. Case QCCXXX. Mrs. Postal, Hackney.—Ulcerated cancer of left breast. This poor woman has been suffering from this disease for over- three years. She was an out-door patient of the Cancer Hospital for many months, but finding herself getting worse daily, she applied to the notorious Mr. —, or Professor Holloway. She used his ointments and SAvallowed his pills for a year, gradually getting Avorse and Aveakef She came to me upon the 17th June, 1856, Avhen I found a large ex- cavated cancerous sore underneath the pectoral muscle and axillaVm- pit) of the left side. I pronounced the case hopeless; but in order to give her some relief I put her under treatment. T was enabled to assuage her sufferings, and gave her much relief. She died unon tho 16th March, 1857, after a severe attack of influenza. Case DXXXVIII. Mrs. J.—Cancer of the tongue. This lady le up to London, and placed herself under my care on the 14th Wy 1856. The tongue was involved to a fightful extei.? the disease. Professor Syme refused to operate. When I saw her I at first refused interference with the case, when she went to Mi- Fm- guson. who proposed an operation. To this her brother, the Eev came