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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    [ *39 ] which ought to be liberally ufed in the decodtions, &c. The feeond indication may be fulfilled by the fame means as the firft, taking care to employ them in a prudent manner. Although convinced, both from reafon and experience, that we have thus indica¬ ted the true remedies for cancerous dia- thefis ; we are willing, however, to ac¬ knowledge, that they will not fucceed in all cafes; and here are our reafons.— Firft. There are certain bounds to the ef¬ fects of antifeptics, beyond which they feem to have no energy.—So long as the gluten, which binds together, as it were, the folid parts, continues to be exempt from the putrefadfive procefs, and that thefe parts preferve their natural organi¬ zation, there is reafon to hope, that they may be brought back to their natural ftate ; but when this is not the cafe, the difeafe is irremediable. Secondly. Al¬ though antifeptics have a tendency to fwee'cen the putrid humours, yet thofe humours will not fail to diminilh the ac¬ tivity of many of the medicines we em¬ ploy, by rendering them fufceptible of rr~\ I i 2 the