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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    [ ] fotnctimes it is fufficient, for this purpofe, to augment the proportion of honey, A, That ingenious furgeon added theTinft. Thebaic, with a view to make the fublimate (it eafier on the flomach, having obfer- vcd, that without fuch a precaution, it often difagreed both with the flomach and bowels, efpecially when taken in large do- fes.+— It is certain that the opiate here would tend to mode¬ rate the irritability of the whole fyftem, which is known to be fo acute in thefe cafes, and thus would obviate any ill ef¬ fects which mifi-ht otherwife arife from the fublimate,—In this patient, a great many decayed teeth and flumps were ex¬ tracted to prevent irritation, and (he drank a decoction of farfapavilla, guaiacum, 8cc.—-walked her mouth often with a gargarifm, compofed of barley-water and mel-rofaceum, in every pint of which, two or three grains of the fublimate weVe dinolved : — this pan of the procefs would, however, by irritating the ulcets, be likely to do more harm than good, and therefore had better been omitted.—Befides this, floe ob- ftrved an exact regimen, avoiding every thing of a heating and irritating nature, and took now and then a cooling purge. — By this method, fhe was foon better, and in fix months perfectly cured, without any return of the diforder. It is obfcrvable, that the bark is not mentioned in this cafe : it would certainly have been ufefui. — Dr. Akenfide found both the cicuta and fublimate rvere iiifufficient, when ufed by themfeives in cancerous cafes, although they proved curative when joined to a decoction of the bark : and as the infuffi- ciency of the cicuta is now pretty generally acknowledged, it would feem probable, that Dr. Akenfide’s fuccefs is to be wholly aferibed to the joint effects of the bark and the fubli* mate.—In thefe melancholy cafes, every thing ought to be tried, from which there is a probability of fuccefs. — See Gooch’s Med. Obfervations, and Dr. Akenfide’s Paper in the Medical Tranfaclions, Yoi. I» * \