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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    grath: the value of whose testimony is known to an extensive circle. I thought it might be of some ser- vice to the cause of humanity, to see with my own eyes some of the cases; and I have been more than repaid by witness- ing the progressive amendment of the pa- tients, and by hearing from time to time their joyful declarations, that they were greatly relieved from the torment of their previous pain. Where Mr. Young has introduced my name, he has faithfully described my im- pressions. It is undoubtedly a misfortune, that three patients, all going on prospe- rously towards the cure of the local dis- ease, Wildman, Thomas, and Wood, should all three have died before their cure was complete; although, in the case of Wild- man, it was nearly perfect. But our conviction of the innocency and efficacy of Mr. Young's plan, cannot be shaken by these untoward events. Wildman and Thomas were two paupers, whose consti- tutions were exhausted. Both were habi- tual dram-drinkers, and the observation made upon each, when first seen, was,