An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation / by Richard Carmichael.

  • Richard Carmichael
Date:
1809
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Credit: An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation / by Richard Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    progress, and had commenced seven years be- fore, according to his own account, like a common blister. Before his application to me he resorted to Jervis Street Hospital, where the late Mr. M‘Evoy told him his only chance was to submit to an operation. On the 14th of April 1807.—Oxy-phosphate of Iron was applied to the Ulcerated part of his Lip, and he was ordered fifteen grains of the Carbonate three times a day.—This treatment was persevered in for six. weeks, during which time the appearance of the Ulcerated part consi- derably amended; and in place of the dry crust with which it was concealed, it was found covered at each dressing with white tenacious matter, and from being totally insensible, strange as it may seem, had become extremely irritable. From the beginning of June till the middle of July, the Ulcer was dressed with Sub- Oxy-phos- phate of Iron, a preparation I have since found of the greatest eflicacy in this disorder, tho’ it produced in this case but little benefit; my chief motive for making use of it was its solubility in animal fluids, tho’ I acknowlege its agreement in other circumstances which shall] be mentioned hereafter, with my speculations, was. no small inducement ; this preparation always excited severe pain for eighteor ten minutes after its application, but under its use
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