An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation.

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849.
Date:
1809
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Credit: An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    10^ AND CANCEROUS BREAST, CURED* induration of the Os Uteri, with a foetid dis- *' charge. She is now perfectly well. Whene- ver she has any pain in the region of the *' Uterus, to which she has long been subject, she has always recourse to pills of the Oxy- phosphate of Iron, which she says, allays the pain immediately. Since the publication of my treatise on the Rhatany root, I have been consulted on a Cancerous Ulcer on the Breast; the Lady, aged 45, about eight years since had *' a schirrous tumour in the right Breast, ex- tirpated by a Surgeon in London. About four years afterwards, she was affected with acute pains in the Breast, the Cicatrix became at length very callous, and in a short lime ulcerated. The Ulceration was for some time kept clean and stationary by the use of Arsenic. *' The Arsenic at length failed to produce any *' salutary effect. The Ulcer spread, the dis- charge became foetid, the edges reflected and callous; in fact, it assumed every appearance *' of Cancer. In this state she applied to me. I *' directed the Phosphoric preparations of Iron, both externally and internally; after one months *' perseverance, she informed me that the Ulcer was nearly healed ; that soon after using it, it *' became quiet; that the surface sloughed off, and was succeeded by healthy Granulations, *' and a purulent discharge. Her general health ** wa§ much improved by the Oxy-phosphate of