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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![weeks he was perfectly cured. But, let the cha- racter of the complaint have heen cancerous or not, I think some part of the cure must have depended on the change of climate, and the sea-voyage ; although I give due credit to the use of the carrot- poultice. That carrots will take off the fcetor of cancer, there can be no doubt: I have seen them do more, —they have not only cleansed^ hut have caused the healing and cicatrization of some parts of a cancerous sore. The disease however in this case kept going on with the destruction of other parts, whilst the patient's general health, during this time, was passing from bad to worse, and he daily getting weaker. It is mostly supposed that, in a genuine cancer, mercury not only does no good, but a great deal of harm. How ever, in another reputed [Case 11.] cancer of the face, a strict mercurial course produced a lasting cure. To decide between venereal and cancerous sores is by no means easy, where ulceration is the only symptom ; and the true nature of a case can some- times only be known by experiment, that is, by a fair trial of the effects of mercury. Case 12.]—I remember a case of this kind, in a youno- man who had been venereal ly injured, in which a crusty, horny sort of substance pushed forwards from the middle of one cheek, until it acquired an elevation of more than half an inch](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458571_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
