On the pain in pelvic cancer and its relief by morphia : illustrated by fifty cases / by Francis Henry Champneys.

  • Champneys, Francis Henry, Sir, 1848-1930.
Date:
1881
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Credit: On the pain in pelvic cancer and its relief by morphia : illustrated by fifty cases / by Francis Henry Champneys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE PAIN IN PELVIC CANCER AND ITS RELIEF BY MORPHIA, ILLUSTRATED BY FIFTY CASES. By Francis Henry Champneys, M.A.,M.B. Oxon.,M.R.C.P., MEDICAL EEGISTEAE TO ST. BAETHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN TO THE OUT-PATIENTS AT THE SAMAEITAN AND QUEEN CHAELOTTE'S HOSPITALS. The following study of pelvic cancer is offered as a contribution to the general knowledge of a disease, common as it is incurable, with the following objects :—First, of forming some basis for our choice of one or other of the different modes of administering morphia founded on fact; secondly and principally, of formulating our observation with regard to the frequency, duration, quality, locality, and severity of the pain, in malignant disease of the uterus and pelvic organs; on the principle of studying the phenomena of diseases even where we cannot foresee any immediate effect on practice, that is, so far as we can see, unpractically. The opportunity for this study has been given me in the wards of St. Bartholomew's Hospital by the kindness of Dr. Matthews Duncan. The cases have been such as oflered themselves in the out-patient room of the hospital and have not been selected, but admitted in order. To the 50 cases thus admitted without selection I have added four others in an appendix,