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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    which I have employed them, and of the large number of cases submitted to my care during the last ten years, it is not unnatural that I should have many grateful patients and friends, who are anxious to extend the benefit of this treatment to other sufferers; but to the non-professional world it may be matter of some surprise to know, that many medical men, of education and repute, resort to the most unwortliy methods of fabrication and detraction, in order to deter those suiferers, whom they are unable to relieve, from seeking assistance and relief elsewhere. Such a course can only be attributed to profes- sional jealousy, unbecoming men of education, and medical rank, who ascribe to what they call empi- ricism, the simple, but ascertained results, which they are unable to realize in their own practice. I neither hold, nor seek to hold any professional secrets. 1 have developed my views in the usual professional organs. My prescriptions are written in the usual way, and are patent to professional inspection. In a word, I am obliged to express my conviction that my success, is the most probable cause, of the professional opposition which I have had to encounter, and some calumnies which have been stated respecting it, it is, perhaps, worth my while to notice.