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
Date:
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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    About the same period M. Helvetius publish- ed his Observations, which assign the source of Cancer merely to the coagulation of a small drop of humour in a gland, extravasated by the effect of some externa] irolence and its growth he attributes to the frequent addition of a similar humour coagulating with the first; but to ac- count for the succeeding pain and Ulceration, he is obliged to adopt the customary hypotheses of Leavens Effervescence and sharp humours. Extirpation is recommended as the only cure for a confirmed Cancer, but at the beginning he says it is so inconsiderable a disease, that it may be easily removed, by dissolving the small portion of humour, then but imperfectly coagu- latied or consuming it by Escharotics.—But I fear this advice can afford but small advantage, a^ the Patient at this early period must be igno- rant of his danger—The discovery that it might derive its origin from an external accident, was however advancing a considerable step at a time when it was universally considered a constitu- tinal disease. CHAP