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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    harmless, by timely attention and proper applU cation. With this view, and not from an ostentatious idea of being able to develope the origin of a poison, which is known only in its frightful aspect and calamitous effects, the present dis- cursive essay is brought before the public, both as a stimulant to professional, exertion, and an encouragement to the afflicted. Cancers have been classed by medical writers under various orders; but Dr. Cullen's defini- tion, as being simply correct and perspicuous, is generally received. According to this celebrated professor, Cancer is a painful scirrhus tumour, terminating in a fatal ulcer; and this genus of disease, he places in the class locales and the order iumores^ adding, very properly, that any parts of the body may be attacked by it, though the glands are considered by him as most subject to the malady. As Cancer takes the -two forms, of a tumour and an ulcer, so it receives denominations cor- responding to its respective stages, being called occult before it breaks, and open cancer when it suppurates. It is further said to be in a scirrhus state when hard, inert, and void of colour; but b2 /