An essay on the effects of carbonate of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that disease / by Richard Carmichael.

  • Richard Carmichael
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1806
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Credit: An essay on the effects of carbonate of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that disease / by Richard Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    history of the diseases of Women, that strong- ]y marks the excess to which vague Conjectures and Theories unsupported by facts, may mislead' the understanding* The mode of treating this disease may be jlistly presumed as absurd and inefficient as the opinions concerning its origin, and thus we fmd in almost every a/ueient Author, a long catalogue of inert or incongruous remedies, tho' at the same time, we are generally informed- that the Knife aiid Cautery are alone to be de- pended on.'—We have in oiite view, in a compen- dium of the practice of Physic, published by Schmitzius in 1600, at Leydenf, the favourite and * Illustris & controTersise plena «t d-e materia Cancri apud- scriptofes disputatio, nam Bracheliiis ex melancholico succo minime adusto oriri; ideoque male quosdam ex fervida bile gigni dixisse pugnaciter contendit. Placiti ansam Galenus dedit qui Cancrocausam praeberedixerathumoremjmelancho- licum, qui est fex sanguinis & a liene attrahitur, is auteiu humor adustus non est, neque fervldus, sed pura sanguinis superfluitas atque benigna, cum sit lienis alimentum recte dixeris sanguinem melancholicum, qui ex bile atra sanguineve fer-vido ac retorrido cancri originem constituit. Rod» Cast. Lusitain Lib.i. pars. 2, p. 115. jf The following remedies may serve to shew the eccentri- city of our predecessors.—Cochclearum carueselixce—Cancri- fluvi-