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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    Although the chief purpose of this publication is to explain the improved and novel remedies of pressure and congelation, it is necessary, for the full exposition of the subject, to advert to other modes of treatment which still find favour with some practitioners; and this will be done in separate sections, after a few remarks on the pathology or nature of cancer. To enter minutely into a consideration of the symptoms and progress of this disease, as it appears in its various localities, is not my object, and would indeed be unnecessary when reference can be so easily made to any one of the excellent and complete trea¬ tises which have lately been published on the subject, by Ben¬ nett, Lebert, Paget, Yelpeau, and Walshe. The tract will conclude with some remarks on the use of congelation in certain affections of the neck of the uterus; and to save repetition, a few pages already printed, relating to the preparation of frigorific mixtures, will also be appen¬ ded to it. 16 Upper Gloucester place, Dorset square, February 1st, 1854. c the event, even the deaths which are produced by chloroform in hospi¬ tals, now attract little or no attention. One, for example,fthat occurred at a provincial hospital during last summer was only published on the 13th January, and, by accident, as it were, in a paper sent to a medical journal, relating to other matters. The operation was the excision of a small cyst under the eyebrow, and might have been made perfectly pain¬ less by congelation. As we cannot expect to become acquainted with such occurrences in private practice, it is more necessary that those happen¬ ing in hospitals should be carefully reported. The question of the pro¬ priety of using chloroform in any operation rests on the question of the amount of danger attending it, and it can never be properly settled without a more accurate knowledge of the facts on which our reasoning must be founded.