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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    ins: sensation in her Breast, arising: from the acrid discharge of this extensive Ulcer. Mr. M'Mullen, Apothecary, in Capel Street, occasion- 3#y visited her, and prescribed anodyne niedi- cines in such doses as might afford her some relief; for several Surgeons of eminence, whom she had consulted long before I saw her, informed her friends of the hopeless nature of her disor- der. I could not but concur in their opinion ; yet without the slightest hopes of her recovery, I had little doubt that the pain would be much alleviated by sprinkling the Ulcer daily with a Chalybeate preparation. On the 7th of August 1806, the Cavity of the Ulcer was nearly filled with Phosphate of Iron; over this was placed lint, and above all a pledget spread with some mild ointment. Two days afterwards she declared that the powder had so much relieved her, that she scarcely felt a pain j and distinguished her persent sensation as a slight stinging. She was dressed in the same manner daily, till the 1st of September, without any return of the pains, and with an evident amendment in the appearance of the Ulcer, so that her friends began to entertain sanguine hopes of her re- covery ; but her strength was evidently declin- ing on account of the profuseness of the dis- charge from the Ulcer, the entire mrface of ivhlch T 2