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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    EXTRACTS FROM THE REPO R T « OF ®f>e Surgical Staff of tfie ittttftlegex hospital. UPON THE TREATMENT OF CANCEROUS DISEASES IN THE HOSPITAL ON THE PLAN INTP.ODUCED BY Dr. FELL. To the Chairman and Members of the Weekly Board. u Gentlemen,—The time has now arrived when, in accordance with the promise originally made by us, it becomes our duty to report to you upon the results of the method of treatment recently carried into execution by Dr. Fell and ourselves, in the Cancer Wards of the Hospital “We think it well, first of all, to remind the Governors generally, that the existence of a special endowment for the maintenance of patients afflicted with Cancer forms a feature by which the Middlesex is distinguished from all other general hospitals. Patients with cancerous disease are indeed tem¬ porarily received into other establishments; but there nowhere else exists a fund applicable to the permanent support of that unhappy class of sufferers.” u The investigations on Cancer, which are the subject of the present Report commenced, it may be stated, in the fact* that a considerable amount of interest has lately been excited in this metropolis, by certain methods of treating that disease known to be pursued by Dr. Fell. “ At a more recent period, when it was ascertained that the mode of treating Cancer adopted by Dr. Fell, of New York, * The italicising is mine. .