On the nature and cure of glandular diseases, especially those denominated cancer, with the mode of treatment, and on the too frequent use of mercury, strongly recommended to the serious consideration of every individual : with a detail of various cases in which cancer has been completely removed without the use of the knife ... : also, on organic affections of the stomach, with a few remarks on cholera : and in an appendix, two cases, I. of fissure of the cranium II. of preternatural enlargement of the heart / by Sir Charles Aldis.

  • Aldis, C. J. B. (Charles James Berridge), 1808-1872.
Date:
1832
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Credit: On the nature and cure of glandular diseases, especially those denominated cancer, with the mode of treatment, and on the too frequent use of mercury, strongly recommended to the serious consideration of every individual : with a detail of various cases in which cancer has been completely removed without the use of the knife ... : also, on organic affections of the stomach, with a few remarks on cholera : and in an appendix, two cases, I. of fissure of the cranium II. of preternatural enlargement of the heart / by Sir Charles Aldis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was made to the large tumour, which expelled itself ill the usual way, after which, at the latter end of October, she returned home, with her health greatly improved ; and the Cancer quite secured. Conceiving, however, that she returned into the country rather too soon, she came to Lon- don again in the following year, and continued under my direction, on a course of strengthening medicines, for about four months, which com- pletely restored her debilitated constitution, and when 1 saw her last October, after a lapse of six years, I had the pleasure to find her looking better than 1 had ever before seen her. The case which I have now to relate, appears to be one of Cancer of the mucous membrane of the rectum, which had long baffled medical treat- ment, and might have proved fatal had it not been for the mental energy of the lady who was the subject of it. At the desire of her daughter (Lady ,) she applied to me in September, 1816, when she imparted, in writing, the parti- culars of the complaint under which she laboured. This statement had been drawn up for the consi- deration of Mr. Cline, which circumstance it is necessary to mention, as explanatory of the nar- rative. I should here observe, that this lady, who is now between sixty and seventy years of j^e, is of avery active disposition, though of spare