An essay on the effects of carbonate of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that disease / by Richard Carmichael.

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849.
Date:
1806
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    to US, for some of them at least are capable of palliating the malignity of the disorder, and among the number I include the recommen- dation of frequent Purgatives^, which tho* pro- bably at first directed with the intention of eva- cuating atrahilisy would not have been so gene- rally esteemed, if some real benefit h.ad not been observed to follow their exhibition —and no means seem more likely to prevent the increase of a Cancer, w^hen situated near the external surface, than the practice here recom- mended, which by determining the impetus of the blood to a distant part, diminishes its force in the neighbourhood of the disease; and we need no furthur proof of the necessity of lessening as miucU as possible, the excitement arising from a malady attended with so much pain, than the knowledge of the injurious effects, which always succeed the use of emollients, stimulants or whatever tends to quicken the circulation.— And the same intention will be still further an- * Galeni Metlu Med. Lib. xiv. Tom, 3,;;, 1330. Pauli Mginet(B Lib. iv. Cap. 28. Andrsx VesalliChirurg, Mag. Lib. v. Cap 17. , Hieronymi Fabrkii Lib. i, Cap 22, p. 120. Guil. Fab. Hildani Cent. 3, Obscrv. 87. Wiseman's Surgery Book \,Chapter 2\, p. 102, (^c. S^c^ S^c. ,^wered.