Cancer : its nature and treatment / by John Pattison.

  • Pattison, John
Date:
1856
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Credit: Cancer : its nature and treatment / by John Pattison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rated en masse, and on tlie 9th April she was dismissed perfectly cured, the sore being healed over by a firm cicatrix. When in Glasgow, last August, this lady came to see me, and although the original part was quite well, yet there appeared a suspicious looking pimple near. I pre- vailed upon her to come up to London, and in the course of two or three weeks all suspicious appearances disap- peared, and she was quite restored. Case LXXIII. Mrs W., aged 34.—About the beginning of the month of March, 1853, this lady, when assisting to turn her sickly mother in bed, received a blow from her elbow in the right breast. It was only, however, in July, 1853, that she experienced any pain, which was similar to the pricking of numerous needles. It was shown to the family surgeon. Dr Douglas, of Edinburgh, who ordered internal medicines, and also ordered the breast to be painted with the tincture of iodine. This practice was continued two months, when the tumour increasing in size, the late Mr McKenzie was called in, who ordered a black plaster, resembhng a pitch plaster. He again saw it in the beginning of this month (Decem- ber, 1853), when he advised an immediate operation. Mr Syme saw it, who pronounced it cancer. This lady came up to London, and I commenced treatment on 30th December, 1853. She continued under treatment until the 14th day of August, 1854, when she returned home perfectly well, and, during all this time, though under active treatment, and living in a small room, yet her general health was evidently much improved. I saw this lady in Edinburgh in September last [1854], and have heard since from her, and she is perfectly well. loth Noveoiber, 18 H.