This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: A New and Successful Mode of Treating Certain Forms of Cancer. to Which Is Prefixed a Short Practical and Systematic Description of All the Varieties of the Disease, Showing How to Distinguish Them One From Another, and From Tumours, Etc. Simulating Them; Original Published by: Churchill in 1874 in 171 pages; Subjects: Health

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...When it is intended to re-apply the paste, the former piece of lint must be carefully soaked for some time with warm (not hot) water, and after it has come away, the mucilage be used as before, recollecting that until the last application that is intended has been made, poultices as a rule are not to be used, unless under special circumstances; and that after a decided line of demarcation has been formed, no more paste is to be applied. In general it will be found that after the slough has come away, the whole of the disease has been removed; but sometimes this will not be the case, and then the mucilage must again be had recourse to (vide Cases Nos. G, 8, and 9); in others it will be found desirable to remove a portion of the dead cancer before another application of the paste (vide Case No. 3). This, however, is only necessary when the cancer becomes hard and callous, and will not allow it to penetrate. I have also used this remedy in some cases after operation by other means. For example, not very long ago, a gentleman applied to me, who was suffering from a pedunculated epithelial cancer, situated below and a little behind the right ear, quite of a mushroom shape. The broad flat part was four inches and a half in circumference, half an inch thick, and grew on a stem less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. It was removed in a moment with a noose of silver wire, but the root still remained; one application of the paste brought this perfectly away in eight days, and a fortnight after the patient was well. Neither tho knife or ecraseur could, I think, have accomplished this so well, and no other caustic would have performed the task so cleanly and satisfactorily. One of the most pleasing and wonderful phenomena connected with the...