A report on the origin and therapeutic properties of Cundurango / by W.S.W. Ruschenberger.

  • Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Date:
1873
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Credit: A report on the origin and therapeutic properties of Cundurango / by W.S.W. Ruschenberger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fever and scrofulous ulcers in the breast. Constant and diligent care did nothing toward restoring his health until I resolved to administer the cundurango to him together with arsenic, and his present condition is very encouraging. ***- ■*•****■ “ I will remark that the cancers which I treated with the cundurango were already in the form of fungus haematodes and none in the state of rawness. % ***•*•*** “Reminding the patient of this terrible circumstance, (the difficulty of saving his life,) I obliged him to take the remedy which I alone possessed in Quito. After a few days it pro- duced so surprising an effect that Dr. Casares was astonished at the rapidity with which the cure took place, until the edges became cicatrized and also the bone, as if it had been a wound in soft parts and in a healthy subject. I caused Dr. Casares to be informed of the remedy which had cured him, and this professor appreciated a medicament of such high importance; and afterward, learning that a servant of my brother Manuel Eguiguren had cured himself some months before of an ulcer- ated cancer which resisted the known appliances of art, he began to give it to a patient who was by chance in the hospital, and who would have died two or three days afterward, if this remedy had not been so seasonably given him, as I was assured by Dr. Casares, when he took me to see him.” The above seems to be a statement of Dr. Eguiguren. He asserts that he only possessed the remedy, and that he “caused Dr. Casares to be informed” of its efficacy. The remark that none of the cancers which he treated was “in a state ot rawness” but “already in the form of fungus haematodes” is not consistent with the views of the progress of the disease com- monly entertained by surgeons The Hon. Rumsey Wing, the American minister near the
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