An essay on the effects of the fucus helminthocorton upon cancer : more especially in the stage denominated occult : with a concise enquiry into the origin and nature of the disease, and the probable way in which the dispersion of these tumours is effected : together with observations on the various modes of practice ... enabling the reader at one view to become acquainted with every method now pursuing for the cure of this malady / by William Farr.

  • Farr, William.
Date:
1822
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An essay on the effects of the fucus helminthocorton upon cancer : more especially in the stage denominated occult : with a concise enquiry into the origin and nature of the disease, and the probable way in which the dispersion of these tumours is effected : together with observations on the various modes of practice ... enabling the reader at one view to become acquainted with every method now pursuing for the cure of this malady / by William Farr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    30/134 (page 12)
    *' or a seventh of an ounce may be given to infants. The quantity to be given for a ** dose is to be put into, a covered vessel, and about half a pint of boiling water poured over it and left to infuse for ten or twelve ** hours, then strained clear off and taken fast- '* ing; no food to be permitted to be taken for an hour, or an hour and a half afterwards : ** it can be given at most only four or five times. As a commentary upon these directions, I shall observe that in this instance it was only designed to be used as a vermifuge, and whe- ther the strict injunction which he thought proper to add to the direction, regarded only its effects and efficacy when taken for that purpose, or some injurious tendency which he supposed a long continuance of its use might occasion, I am wholly ignorant. The precaution, however, had not the ef- fect of deterring me from making a trial of it; and it is highly gratifying to me to be