Cancer : its nature and treatment, with observations on certain diseases peculiar to women / by John Pattison, M.D.

  • Pattison, John.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Cancer : its nature and treatment, with observations on certain diseases peculiar to women / by John Pattison, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREE ACE. My attention in early professional life was specially attracted to Cancer, and the various forms of disease to which it is analogous, or with which it is asso- ciated. The practical experience of twenty-three years has led me to a conviction of the fallacies that have obtained in the previous and ordinary treatment of the disease, and of the possibility of adopting a less painful, and more successful method. This previous treatment to which I refer, has been, in my opinion, imperfect as to close examination, severe in its nature, and unsuccessful in its result.* * ludeed, a recent report of the Governors of the Cancer Hospital bears out this assei-tiou ; for, speaking of operations hj the l^nife (and, alas 1 they can do but little else), they state that of 244 persons operated upon, the average lapse of time before the disease returned (and it nearly always returns in an aggravated form) was no more than fourteen months. In thirty-seven cases of operation noted during the past year, twenty-nine of them were attacked again in less than six months. B