Cancer cures and cancer curers / by T. Spencer Wells.

  • Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.
Date:
1860
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    and Gazette a few months ago was a most useful caustic. Dr. Pattison has not been heard of so much since the arrival of Dr. Pell. Indeed, the disappear- ance of one and the advent of the other are supposed not to have been altogether without concert. Where Dr. Pattison may be now, I cannot say, but his publications remain ; and I can tell you something about some of the cases he has treated. A report of one of these used to appear in the form of a declara- tion sworn before the provost of Glasgow, that the patient was cured by Dr. Pattison, after having been regarded by Mr. Syme of Edinburgh as hopeless. Mr. Syme informs me that the patient was a small farmer, who had a sore at the corner of the nose. Mr. Syme applied the chloride of zinc to it, but the man went to Dr. Pattison, and so far from having been cured by him “ died in great misery after several journeys to London.” Mr. Syme informs me that a case of cancer of the breast which had returned after operation, and which Dr. Pattison boasted he had cured, is not cured, but that the lady is dying ; and that another lady, upon whom Mr. Syme declined to operate for cancer of the tongue, died under Dr. Pattison’s care. These are cases which the public never hear of, but which really ought to be made known. In 1855 a book appeared, entitled “ Cancer; its true Nature, Treatment, and Cure. Illustrated by Cases. By John Pattison, M.D., 31, ^ Lower