Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard.
- Howard, John, Fellow of the College of Surgeons
- Date:
- 1811
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Credit: Practical observations on cancer / by the late John Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![great rate, I adopted this composition by analogy in the above case, as it was not only likely to re- move the extreme difficulty to give ease, but to prevent the extension of corroding mischief*. Case 9.]—In a second case, in a much older person, the ravages have been checked, for years, by the same means; but the complaint still sub- sists. Case 10.]—A gentleman came from one of the West Indian IslandsTo England, to get medical advice for a large spreading ulceration, which the faculty supposed from its obstinacy and duration to be cancerous. The port he landed at was Ply- mouth. He there consulted a surgeon, who ad- vised him to apply a carrot-poultice. On reaching London, he applied to another surgeon, still think- ing his case cancerous; and this gentleman, seeing the sore in a tolerably good state, recommended him to continue the application. In a very few * The hint for this composition I took in part from Mr. Adair Hawkins, who, without ever having employed it in cancer, had fre- quently applied it to phagedenic buboes. His method of using ^was io the form of a dry powder, but combined with Cort. eruv. This remedy was powdered on with a puff, so as to make a wall or covering of the composition. As fast as the cover. mg cracked, the crack was filled up, to the exclusion of the ex- uTal TVf UliS' thG SPreadinS and Phagedenic sore /n GXaCt W ended * Mr. Adair Hawkins, I first applied it in the Middlesex Hospital, to what great extent, it rendered all endeavours fruitless.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
