Volume 1

A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker].

  • Gataker, Thomas, -1769.
Date:
1757
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A supplement to Observations on the internal use of the nightshade / [Thomas Gataker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i [ 16 ] for the Cure of Cancers \ and in a Difor- der of this unhappy Nature every poffible means of Relief demands the utmoft At- ' tention. The Account which Dr. Lam- bergen gave (authorized by the joint Opi¬ nion of three other Phyficians) that he had radically cured a confirmed Cancer in the • _ . Bread:, as it was the immediate Occafion of my trying this Medicine, was likewife a very reafonable Inducement to make the Experiment, though the Relation of his Cafe is not attended with every Circum- fiance that could be defired, The Refult of my Experiments determin¬ ed much more in favour of the Medicine, as an extraordinary Promoter of the natural Dif- charges of the Body, than as having any fpecific Properties for the Cure of Cancers; and therefore in my Introduction to the two cancerous Cafes, in the Obfervations upon Lambergeris Account, and in the Conclufion of the Pamphlet, I have endea¬ voured to guard againft the too hafty Be¬ lief of fo defirable an Event but as I have already mentioned the common Ope¬ rations * 0 v' . i i0 . V. • 0 '