Volume 3

St. Andrews Medical Graduates' Association : transactions, [1869-1871] / edited by W. Sedgwick.

Date:
1870-1872
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    times a day, a lotion containing two drachms of perchloride of iron to twenty ounces of distilled water. March 5th.—Haemorrhage soon ceased after using the iron lotion. The wound looked flabby, and at the bottom could still be felt a hard mass. This I again injected. March 19 th.—Slough had completely separated, leaving a very ugly looking cavity one inch in depth, but the hard lump was no longer to be felt. The cavity was slightly touched with the bromine solution. March 26th.—Everything looking healthy. From this date the wound was allowed to granulate, the patient taking quinine and cod liver oil. By the middle of April the wound had completely healed. The patient had not suffered from any further heemorrhage. Indeed, menstruation ceased from this time. I saw the patient a few weeks ago, looking the picture of health. This mode of treating well-selected cases of cancerous deposits in other parts of the body we have found to be equally as efficacious as when the uterus is the seat of the disease. We do not hesitate to inject any reasonable sized growth when situated in an accessible part. Indeed, the more readily are the parts reached, the more satisfactory are the results. I will detail two cases in point. A patient was sent to me by my friend and colleague, Dr. Savage, who at the time made some such remark, that if I succeeded in curing such a case it must put an end to all cavilling. J. B., aged 54, a strong powerful looking man, visited me October 12th, 1870. He informed me that he had noticed a swelling in his lower lip fully two years before November 1869 ; that at that date he went to Guy's Hospital and had the tumour removed by Mr. Cooper Foster, and that soon after leaving the hospital he noticed a return of the disease in the cicatrix, which had gone on increasing ever since. Very nearly the whole of the lower Hp had been removed by the usual V shaped incision. In the upper and central part of the cicatrix there existed an epithelial deposit in a state of ulceration, in circumference about the size of a shilling. The glands beneath the jaw were not enlarged. He informed me that he had been examined by several surgeons since the return of the disease, but that none of them had proposed any further operative interference. I at once proceeded to inject the tumour with bromine, using the syringe, having first protected his mouth and nostrils with pledgets of lint wetted with the solution of soda.