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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    portant. By no means. On the contrary, its presence is of the utmost consequence in some cases, but it is the abuse of which I complain, when it is considered as a specific, and so used in most diseases. The abuse of a thing in no way militates against its utility; but as mercury, above all other medicines, has such powerful influence on the system, we should do right to consider well, whether its effects are not likely to be attended by more fatal consequences, than would be the result of the total neglect of it in many complaints which it is now employed to cure, and which would have as readily yielded to a more simple, and consequently less danger- ous method of treatment. I feel no hesitation in animadverting upon the free use of the lancet, in the first attack of fever, with difficulty of breath- ing. Some hundreds of cases have come under my care, of persons who had been suddenly seiz- ed with fever and obstructed respiration, from wet, or being exposed to cold, which complaints have been speedily cured by copious alvine evacuations and blisters, without the use of the * lancet, whereby the patients have escaped that debility and exhaustion which profuse venesec- tion occasions. In numerous instances was this proved among the prisoners on the hospital