An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young.

Date:
1805
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ricties of mental imposition and derange- ment. The spirit of inquiry had urged Mr. Smith to a dangerous experiment; he found that he could not he certain that the effects would not be injurious, or even fatal; his reason could not approve what he had done, nor sustain the impression of danger. A train of fanciful ideas came into being ; the man’s mind, rather than his body, was in- fected. Where was the evidence of specific infec- tion either before or after death ? Did the tongue become cancerous? Was the stomach found to be in a scirrhous state ? Was the pylorus, the oesophagus, or were the tonsils, so ? or was there any thing that proved a taint of the system ? No. If such evidence therefore be wholly want- ing, the fact, with regard to the “had taste,” is no more in point, than if Mr. Smith, after having tasted the cancerous matter, had fan- cied himself a tea-pot or a pipkin. Another point of view in which this case may be considered, (if a highly stimulating 7