The general nature and treatment of tumours / by George Macilwain.

  • George Macilwain
Date:
1845
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Credit: The general nature and treatment of tumours / by George Macilwain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SPECIMENS OF TEACHING. and connect with the view it unfolds the so-called investigations, which are instituted in cases of un- natural deposition; so far from being surprised at the present state of the Surgery of tumours, we shall feel disposed to marvel that any tumours have been dispersed, and almost be incHned to adopt the pro- found remark that I heard a man make, who calls himself a teacher of surgery, when he gravely said, Gentlemen, the patient in ward, from whom we proposed to remove a large tumour, is dis- charged; the tumour having disappeared sponta- neously! / I could present the reader with pages of whimsical specimens of medical philosophy, if the mind''' of our profession were represented by persons who constitute themselves teachers under a system, which, though it does not necessarily ex- clude talent, renders it notoriously by no means necessary to the obtaining a tenure of their posi- tions. I have given one; take two more. These tumours, Gentlemen, we have no power of controll- ing, and therefore—What, reader ] we endeavour to inculcate more enlarged modes of enquiry into their nature No—but therefore we remove them !! Another says, You have heard, Gentle- men, of cancers being cured—but the fact is, the gentlemen have mistaken the disease.—In other words, cancer is incurable—for, our present science represents the ultima thule at which we can arrive on this subject!!! I make room for one more; because the error is w^ell packed, there being an unusual quantity in a small space. You may remove enlargements of original tissue by deob- struents!!! and attention to the general health.
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