Cancer : its nature and treatment / by John Pattison.

  • Pattison, John
Date:
1856
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    care of tlie late Allan Bums of Glasgow, she had an attack of erj'^sipelas, after which the disease increased very much. About six years ago, saw Mr Syrae, of Edinburgh, who ordered some aj:)plications of sulphur. These aggravated the disease very much. When I saw this lady, a large ijortion of the inner angle of the left eye and a jjortion of tlio forehead was in a state of can- cerous ulceration, accompanied udth the lancinatiitg pains of the disease. Tliis lady placed herself under my care; and I am now glad to state that the disease is arrested, and that she no longer suffers from the darting pains in the part. If caustics are so injurious in these parts, ex- Caustics to neck amplified by the above cases, what must it of Womb. ]jQ -wtien applied tt) tlie neck of the womb, and to the adjacent delicate structures ? 0)ie of the most eminent and accomplislied accoucheurs of the present day, I mean Dr Simpson of Edinburgh, has used caustics to a fearful extent. The general results of his practice I cannot tell, but many of his patients have come to me for relief, after having been cauterised by him; and in all, I have fomid the disease so far advanced, and the parts so destroyed by the repeated and unsparing use of these fearful agents, that diagnosis in most of the cases was almost impossible. Case CXXXI. Mrs F.—This lady was under Dr Caustics to the ^i^ipson’s Care for ulceration of the neck Womb. yf womb. I saw her in June, 1854. It was about nine months since she was last in Edin- burgh, when she was cauterised twice. Upon examina- tion, I with difficulty ascertained where the neck of the womb had been, for it and the adjacent parts were des- troyed; but I found a hard cancerous mass growing from the walls of the vagina, and which, I htive no doubt.