Cases of cancer : with observations on the use of carbonate of lime in that disease / By Edward Kentish.

  • Kentish, Edward, -1832
Date:
1802
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Credit: Cases of cancer : with observations on the use of carbonate of lime in that disease / By Edward Kentish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / V [ 4 ] , In no in fiance has the unwearied attention of the greated abilities been fo little rewarded, as in attending the fatal progrefs of Open Ulcerated Cancer, affedling the female breads. It has been a a phenomenon palling before the eyes of the faculty ever lince the time of Hippocrates, though our knowledge at prefent feems little advanced in refpedl to the treatment. In the courfe of conducting the following cafes of cancer, the encouragement which fome novelty in the practice afforded, led me once to hope that I might be the fortunate individual who fhould releafe one half of the differing part of the human fpecies from the following dreadful fentence:—u Palliation tc is the lamentable fate of the defperate wretch, cc in wrhom the extenfion of cancer precludes am- tc putation.- No fubdances internally, nor exter- cc nally adminidered, have as yet been difcovered “ to arred this dreadful evil. The free ufe of cc opium is the only temporary and feeble means “ of obtunding its inexpredible tortures, until the £C complete dedru&ion of vital organization hap- pily places the fufferer beyond the reach of pain.” (Vide Aitken’s Elements of Surgery.) But to ac- complifh fuch views it would have been neceffary to have edablifhed an inftitution for the purpofe of concentrating experience, if I may be allowed the term: for, on the average of my own pra&ice, and that