Cancer : its nature and treatment, with observations on certain diseases peculiar to women / by John Pattison, M.D.

  • Pattison, John.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Cancer : its nature and treatment, with observations on certain diseases peculiar to women / by John Pattison, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    A statement has been widely circulated that I had a ward given to me in the Middlesex Hospital, for the treatment of cancer, that this treatment was totally unsuccessful, and that the patients could not submit to its severity. In all this, there is not one word of truth. My name has been confounded, I hope unwit- tingly, on the part of my medical brethren, with that of an American adventurer, to whom a ward in the Middlesex Hospital was given some eight years ago, and whose treatment was to burn out the diseased part by the use of chloride of zinc. Nearly eleven years ago I made an offer to the Hospital to undertake twenty-five cases, and to treat them by my own method, and the unsuccessful result of this application may be seen by a reference to some of my former publications. Without enlarging further upon matters which are chiefly personal, among which I should be obliged to mention instances in which medical men, actuated by professional jealousy, have declined to meet me in consultation, I will only say that my diploma and credentials are as valid as their own; that my ex- perience of this particular disease has been at least as extensive as theirs ; that my success has been un- questionably greater than that which has been realized under any previous method of treatment, and with