Supplementary remarks upon the treatment of cutaneous malignant epithelioma (cancers) / by A.R. Robinson.

  • Robinson, Andrew Rose, 1845-1924
Date:
[1893?]
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Credit: Supplementary remarks upon the treatment of cutaneous malignant epithelioma (cancers) / by A.R. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sooner go to some charlatan, the majority of whom, in my opinion, are so ignorant—well, ignorance is no name for their mental condition, judging from some of their correspondence, and the further west they live the louder they quack. I have seen Maisonneuve treat mammary cancer with arrows, and Bougard recommends his paste for the same disease. Some surgeons will say that the pain is too great, and I have known patients to have been told that before they had treatment for one week they would pray for chloroform and the knife. Now, that is not correct. A great number of persons are being treated every year by charlatans, some of whom, no doubt, are clever and skilful from experience, and often obtain good results, whilst others are ignorant and an un¬ favorable result is lo be expected. Many of those ])eople treated by these charlatans recommend their friends, so that it cannot alwavs be true that death is preferable to the pain.^^ I have had experience with these cases—patients who absolutely refused to have a breast amputated, although I have strongly urged it, and the following results can he obtained: Provided the disease has not extended far into the periglandular tissue, the whole of the tumor can be removed within a short period, say four to six weeks, without producing any marked inflammation and without much pain. With Bougard’s paste, plus twenty per cent, cocaine, applied over an area the size of the palm of the liand, if you wish, and left on thirty hours, a dry necrosis, extending one-third to one-half an inch and even deeper, can be obtained without producing special pain. In fact, I have
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