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)
Date:
[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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    you have been successfully treated; and I would earnestly advise all who may be suffering from cancer, to seek you. u With my best wishes for your success and happiness, I remain your grateful friend, “A. S. BALDWIN, M.D.” “New York, January 9th, 1854. “I consider you the instrument, in the hands of God, of saving my life, and relieving me of the most direful disease that flesh is heir to. Accept my warmest thanks for your kind attention and success in my case, and with them the silver pitcher, which I request you to place in your office as a grateful memento. My residence is Lynchburg, Virginia, and will be glad*to give any person information in regard to your method of treatment and extraordinary success. “ Yours very truly, “ W. P. ALLISON, M.D.” v “ VINCIT VERITAS.” St. Cloud Plantation, East Feliciana, Dec. 6th, 1851. “ Dear Sir,—I feel in gratitude compelled to give to your acquirements that distinction which they merit. The cases which I have seen in your office, cured of diseases which the faculty pronounced incurable, have divested my mind of that prejudice which I at one time had. I therefore most unhesi¬ tatingly say that the cures which you perform are, in some cases, extraordinary, and your success truly wonderful. Wish¬ ing you prosperity and success, “ I remain your obedient servant, “J. S. PEACOCKE, M.D. “We have closely observed his successful treatment of the most difficult cases, and we feel it to he a duty we owe to the community at large, to express our entire confidence in his skill and judgment in the successful management of such diseases as he professes to cure. He has in our judgment, been far more successful in the treatment of that .class of dis-