On the nature and cure of glandular diseases, especially those denominated cancer, with the mode of treatment, and on the too frequent use of mercury, strongly recommended to the serious consideration of every individual : with a detail of various cases in which cancer has been completely removed without the use of the knife ... : also, on organic affections of the stomach, with a few remarks on cholera : and in an appendix, two cases, I. of fissure of the cranium II. of preternatural enlargement of the heart / by Sir Charles Aldis.

  • Aldis, C. J. B. (Charles James Berridge), 1808-1872.
Date:
1832
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Credit: On the nature and cure of glandular diseases, especially those denominated cancer, with the mode of treatment, and on the too frequent use of mercury, strongly recommended to the serious consideration of every individual : with a detail of various cases in which cancer has been completely removed without the use of the knife ... : also, on organic affections of the stomach, with a few remarks on cholera : and in an appendix, two cases, I. of fissure of the cranium II. of preternatural enlargement of the heart / by Sir Charles Aldis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to its potent agency. In 1798 this plant was directed to be adopted by the Physicians of the Sick and Hurt Office for Prisoners of War; and it was accordingly carried into full opera- tion in pulmonary diseases, but without the least benefit. Of this I was an eye-witness, being then in the medical department of that establishment; and the hospital to which I was attached contained a vast number of sick, labouring under every variety of disease in a most formidable degree, there being seldom fewer than from five to six hundred patients, in the management of whom it was the uniform practice to put every newly-discovered medicine to the test. Mercury, indeed, was not at that period, as it has been of late years, given in almost every complaint; but subsequent obser- vations in a widely extended practice ha^^ convinced me of the evil attending it, not only in glandular affections, but in a numerous variety of other complaints; especially such as are incidental to females, upon whose delicate constitutions it commits fearful ravages. It will not, I am persuaded, be supposed that I conceive mercury to be incapable of doing good, or that its application is altogether unim-