The modern treatment of cancerous diseases by caustics or enucleation : an inquiry into the effects of many new remedies in arresting the progress of cancer / by Langston Parker.

  • Samuel William Langston Parker
Date:
1867
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Credit: The modern treatment of cancerous diseases by caustics or enucleation : an inquiry into the effects of many new remedies in arresting the progress of cancer / by Langston Parker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i I 1 M. Llan- dolfi's treatment. The amount of pain produced bears no relation to the activity and destructive agency of the caustic in such cases. All the alkaline caustics have the effect of pro- ducing a sanguineous oozing from the parts to which they are applied. They are unlike the chloride of zinc and the mineral acids in this respect, which have the effect of coagulating the blood in the smaller vessels in the im- mediate vicinity of cancerous growths, whilst the alkaline caustics give rise to a sanguineous discharge to a greater or less extent. About ten years ago, a foreign physician, M. Llandolfi, introduced a treatment of cancer by caustics, which for a time appeared very promising in its results, and many cases were published of its apparent success. An account of this method appeared in the Archives Generates for May, 1855, ^7 Lasegue—a translation of which paper may be found in the Dublin ^larterty for November, 1855. Dr. Landolfi, says M. Lasegue, does not belong to the habitual blazoners of secret remedies; his method is not enveloped in any mystery. He is surgeon-in-chief of the Sicilian army, and clinical professor of cancerous diseases in the hospital of the Trinity, at Naples; and he has made it a point of duty to court a publicity in refer- ence to his peculiar treatment, which is honourable to himself, and must be beneficial to humanity. In this spirit he has gone through the great scientific centres of
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