An enquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / By William Nisbet.

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1795
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    PART III. Treatment of Cancer, view of the treatment of Cancer is one of thofe circumftances which ffiews the ineffi- cacy of every boafted theory that has been formed of the difeafe. In entering upon it, it is proper we fhould recall, to the attention of pradtitioners, what has already been taken notice of in the pre- ceding part, viz. firjl, the morbid circumftances, that, from obfervation, feem, in almoft every cafe, to precede the difeafe; and, -idly, thofe which oppofe the action of remedies upon it, when formed. The former confift of, 1. The obftrudtion, or impaired ftate, of fome principal difcharge. And 2. The acrimony, or faulty compofition of the fyftem of fluids. Thefe two I confider as in fome meafure con- nected, and in a greater or lefs degree, almoft the conftant forerunners of this malady. The circumftances, again, that oppofe the ac- tion of remedies upon the difeafe, are B b 1. The