Extracts from the report of the surgical staff of the Middlesex Hospital upon the treatment of cancerous diseases in the hospital on the plan introduced by Dr. Fell.

  • Fell, J. Weldon (Jesse Weldon)
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[1858]
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Credit: Extracts from the report of the surgical staff of the Middlesex Hospital upon the treatment of cancerous diseases in the hospital on the plan introduced by Dr. Fell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    management, and seen the results of the treatment, we con¬ sidered ourself bound by the most sacred duties of humanity, to tell what we had seen, and testify that which we knew to be true, though we were well aware of the high responsibility under which we made the communication, both as a man and a physcian. “ We are now happy to say that we have seen much since the publication in the Advocate, to confirm the opinion then given of the efficacy of the means employed.” From the Merchant’s (N. Y.) Ledger, September 23rd, 1854 “ After reading Dr. Bond’s article, we visited the Dr’s rooms ourself; and feel bound in justice to our readers, and for the sake of suffering humanity, to state that we were posi¬ tively astonished on passing through them and conversing with and looking at his patients, to witness the wonderful cures that he is daily performing. The public, and especially those afflicted by kindred diseases, should be made acquainted with the facts stated.” From the National (Washington) Intelligencer, January 20th, 1855, ’s Dr. Archibald S. Baldwin, of Winchester (Ya.), himself an eminent physician, writes, acknowledging himself cured of an inveterate ulcer upon the left side of his nose and face, which had hitherto baffled the skill of the best surgeons and phy¬ sicians of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Dr. Baldwin writes with a view to relieve the sufferings of many of his fellow- beings similarly afflicted, and says: “ Cancer is one of the most distressing, painful; and horrible diseases that flesh is heir to, and what adds greatly to its horrors is the fact, admitted by the medical profession, that they know no remedy for it—in other words, that it is incurable. Surely under such circumstances, he who has discovered a remedy for so terrible a malady deserves to be regarded as a great benefactor of mankind, and have his name known where- ever such diseases exist.”