An inquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / by William Nisbet.

Date:
1795
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    PART III. Treatment of Cancer. view of the treatment of Cancer is one of thofe circumftances which fhews the ineffi- cacy of every boafted theory that has been formed of the difeafe. In entering upon it, it is proper we ffiould recall, to the attention of practitioners, what has already been taken notice of in the pre- ceding part, viz. firjf, the morbid circumitanccs, that, from obfervation, ieem, in aimoft every cafe, to precede the difeafe; and, 2ci!y, thofe which oppofe the ad ion of remedies upon it, when formed. The former con fill of, 1. The obflruction, or impaired date, of fume principal difeharge. And 2. The acrimony, or faulty compofition of the fyftem of fluids. Thefe two I confider as in feme meafure con- neded, and in a greater or lefs degree, almoit the conflant forerunners of this malady. The circumftances, again, that oppofe the ac- tion of remedies upon the difeafe, are B b 1. The