New treatment of malignant diseases and cancer, without incision / [Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey].

  • Bureaud-Riofrey, A.-M. (Antoine-Martin), 1803-
Date:
1836
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Credit: New treatment of malignant diseases and cancer, without incision / [Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ As the various parts of the body are in connexion with each other, no organ can be deprived of its functions, without injuring the harmony of the economy. It is not then surprising, that an organ condemned injudi¬ ciously to inactivity, or inertie, becomes weak; this explains the frequency of Cancers on the breast in mothers, who do not nurse their children; of the womb in barren women, or those who live in a state of celibacy; and the number of cancerous diseases which are so common at that time of life, when the breast and womb cease their functions, particularly when females do not follow a regimen, suited to this critical period. From these general considerations, arises the treatment of cancerous affections, which must be varied according to the period of the disease, according to the local irritation, the moral pains, and all the circumstances commemorative of previous maladies. At its commencement, it as possible to avoid the irritation or the central point of anormal formation, and prevent its fatal termination. When this happy result cannot be hoped for, and the anormal produce is com¬ pact; or, when it oppresses the neighbouring organs, it plays the part of Vanhelmont’s thorn. If allowed to remain in the tissue, it becomes