An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation.

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849.
Date:
1809
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Credit: An essay on the effects of carbonate, and other preparations of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that and other diseases to which it bears a relation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Ulceration diminished ;—he was allowed to re- 'Hiain in the Hospital three weeks longer, to ascertain whether the disease would return, and was then discharged perfectly weU. CASE III, Cancerous Ulcer of the Nose, A very Young Lady, who in the year 1799, was attacked by this complaint, afforded an un- common proof of the efficacy of the Carbonate of Iron. A small pimple first appeared at the side of her Nose, which, by frequent irritation, dege- nerated into that species of Ulcer termed Noli me tangere.—-Many experienced Practitioners were consulted, who informed her friends of the nature of her inveterate complaint—and at the same time prescribed Cicuta, Calomel, arsenical Lotions, and the other remedies employed in Cancer, but without any beneficial effect. On the 10th of October, 1805, in the sixth year of the progress of the disease. Carbonate of Iron was first applied ; at which period the Ulcer was irregular, with high and everted edges, and discharged a thin Ichor, while redness and