The case of the late James Keil, Dr. of Physick / Represented by John Rushworth of Northampton, surgeon.

John Rushworth

Date:: 1719

Credit: The case of the late James Keil, Dr. of Physick / Represented by John Rushworth of Northampton, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[93 But by his Next, which I foon receiv’d, I had the Melancholy News from him, That the Ulcer was broke out again larger than ever, and therefore that He would be down with me in a Day or Two, and he came accordingly, but in a worfe State than ever before. And tho* it again Digefled, and did as before near Heal, yet the returns were quicker, and upon every new Erup¬ tion it was Larger and Worie ; and fo continu’d to be, notwithftanding all the good internal Methods continually ufed by the concurring Ad* vice of Dr. Mead\ Dr. Friend, and feveral other Eminent Thy/icians ; which no doubt was owing to the malignant Nature of it, And therefore in the Beginning of February laft, I could no longer forbear exprefling my Fears to the Dr. that it would terminate in a raging Cancer. He was too fenfible of it, and told me, “ That fince I thought I could keep it w within Bounds no longer, He was refolved to <£ try what a Salivation would do: And tho* I could fay nothing as to the Advantage he might expe& from it, yet I frankly own’d to him, that if it was my own Cafe, 1 fhould be of his Opinion, that I might make bolder with my-felf, than with any other Patient: But defired by all means, he would firfl hear if his Friends, the Thyficians and Surgeons in London, had yet any other Method to propofe, or elfe would approve of that. He wrote to them, the Anfwer was long in coming, which made the Dr. exprefs Himfelf to me with more Warmth, than I ever knew him to do before : (For he was a Man of the greatefl Command of Himfelf, as well as of *he fweetefi Temper) “ What, fays he, is not u their$

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