A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes.

  • Bernard Peyrilhe
Date:
1777
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Credit: A dissertation on cancerous diseases / ... Translated from the Latin, with notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ..A> [ *3° ] § LXXXV. We have already obferved, that the method of treating Cancers in the firft, and in the beginning of the fe- cond flage, of the difeafe, was commonly known and practiced (§ 17.), and that it was, of courfe, needlefs to dwell on it : we likewife proved, at the fame time, that the remedies which had been propo- fed, with a view to remove the obftruc- tions of the cancerous mafs, were abio- lutely inefficacious, when it had advan¬ ced far in the fecond flage, and confe- quently could be of no ufe in the third and fourth periods of the dileafe.—All fuch remedies, are, therefore, to be con- fidered as chimerical ones.—The methods of the empirics have been always contra¬ dictory to each other, and even the re¬ medies of the dogmatifls, have been of¬ ten of a very oppofite nature. We fee fome, for example, who, in imitation of Boerhaave, employ feptic medicines, as the fixed alkali; while others follow the advice of Galen, and employ vinegar, which is an antifeptic:—for our own part we ffiall attempt to derive our indications of