New treatment of malignant diseases and cancer, without incision / [Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey].

  • Bureaud-Riofrey, A.-M. (Antoine-Martin), 1803-
Date:
1836
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Credit: New treatment of malignant diseases and cancer, without incision / [Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may be said to exist no more for their appoint¬ ed purpose, they are nevertheless during a certain period, the centre of a flowing and generative movement: and if these organs have suffered, or are too weak to act upon the nutri¬ tive fluids which abound, they become the seat of polypus, schirrus, and various malignant or cancerous excrescences. Man and woman have both a critical period to get over. At a certain age, they have a super¬ abundance of the nutritive particles necessary to growth, that give rise to numerous affec¬ tions, among which are obstructions, polypus, schirrus, tumours, &c. &c. In both sexes towards this critical period there is a partial cessation of functionary action. In all the parts of the body there are nervous capillaries which die, like the small branches of ti *ees that we see covered with moss and vegetation, and the leaver which turn yellow and fall, in autumn, for want of a due supply of sap and warmth. When the nervous influence ceases to reach a capillary extremity, either disorder exists in the functions of the arterial or nervous extremity, or the artery dies and atrophy supervenes;