On the treatment of cancer by congelation and an improved mode of pressure, separately or combined : with an appendix on the use of congelation in inflammatory affections of the uterus / by James Arnott.

  • Arnott, James (James Moncrieff), 1794-1885.
Date:
1855
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Credit: On the treatment of cancer by congelation and an improved mode of pressure, separately or combined : with an appendix on the use of congelation in inflammatory affections of the uterus / by James Arnott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    important functions of the body, and thus, by proving in¬ jurious to the general health, instead of retarding, it hastens the patient’s fate. 6C Cicuta, arsenic, iron, iodine, have all been tried,” says Professor Burns, 16 completely, and have so completely failed, that he must be worse than simple who can now use them with expectation of success. The only reason I have ever heard a sensible man give for prescribing any of these, was, e If we don’t prescribe them, the person next consulted will.’ It is thus that quackery and the idle parade of physic is kept up, and old remedies, known to be of no avail, are persisted in, rather than inquiry made after new ones, which, if they do not succeed, at least cannot be more useless than those in fashion ” “ We have heard, indeed, of instances of success, and the narrators, I doubt not, believed what they told: but it is one thing to cure a simple indu¬ ration, and another to cure a cancer. I appeal to the ex¬ perience of every medical man whether I be not correct in the assertions I have made.”* Although iron cannot be rationally used as a cure of cancer, it may have a beneficial effect in giving tone to the system, especially in cases where empoverishment has taken place from loss of blood. Indeed* every measure, whether hygienic or medical, likely to strengthen the system, is useful; and it is because narcotics and the irritating alteratives are hurtful to the constitution that they should be avoided, unless when excessive pain, not otherwise to be subdued, calls for the employment of the former class of medicines. * ‘ Principles of Surgery,’ by John Burns, M.D., Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Glasgow*