Important discovery! : cure for cancers, scrofula and tumors, absesses, felons, boils, corns, &c., &c., with a plaster, healing-salves, and internal medicines / John Lord.

  • Lord, John, active 19th century.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Important discovery! : cure for cancers, scrofula and tumors, absesses, felons, boils, corns, &c., &c., with a plaster, healing-salves, and internal medicines / John Lord. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS. Having practiced now seventeen years, with the mo&t satisfactory success, I could collect, if necessary, certifi- cates without number, speaking the same language as these ; but they are not needed. Having discovered the true nature, character, cause, occasion &c, of these af- fections, I find no difficulty at all, in curing, in multi- tudes of cases, what no other man living could do. The greatest proportion of the deadliness and terror of all malignant diseases, lies in our ignorance of what they are ; false philosophy, pathology, and diagnosis, or none at all, is the bane of the healing art, and gives diseases almost the whole of their dread and power. Fever, for instance, is emphatically the great destroy- er of the human race—if we except says Van Swieten, one of the best authorities, those who perish by a violent death, and such as are extinguished by mere old age, and which indeed, are few, almost all the rest, die either of fever or diseases accompanied with fever. Yet fever, it can be demonstrably shown, is not one ^better under- stood, or better treated in London, Philadelphia or Boston, than Cancers, Scrofula, or Tumors! The true philosophy of Corns, even, is a thing as unknown to the Medical and Surgical world as that of Conscience is to the The- ological or Conciousness to the Philosophic ! ! They all are well known, and yet unknown. The key of the knowledge of what are the first principles of matter, motive-power and mind—of health and diseases, both of the physical and moral man. either has never been pos- 2*