Minutes of cases of cancer and cancerous tendency, successfully treated by Samuel Young .. / with a prefatory letter addressed to the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital, by Samuel Whitbread.

  • Young, Samuel.
Date:
1815
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Credit: Minutes of cases of cancer and cancerous tendency, successfully treated by Samuel Young .. / with a prefatory letter addressed to the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital, by Samuel Whitbread. 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.

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    TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. The circumstances which attended the foundation of the ward for the reception of cancerous patients, in the Middlesex Hos- pital, have naturally led .me to the en- couragement of every rational effort di- rected to the cure or alleviation of cancer, one of the greatest of human calamities; and you will rejoice when informed of a successful experiment. I have lately witnessed the happy effects of the practice of a surgeon, known to the medical world by an approved Treatise on Cancer, published before he had adopted the plan which he now pursues; and I wish to lay before you and the public, a