The treatment of sarcoma and carcinoma by injections of mixed toxins / by C. Mansell Moullin.

  • Mansell-Moullin, C. W. (Charles William), 1851-1940.
Date:
1898
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Credit: The treatment of sarcoma and carcinoma by injections of mixed toxins / by C. Mansell Moullin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Treatment of Sarcoma and Carcinoma by Injections of Mixed Toxins. C. MANSELL MOULLIN, M.D., F.R.C.S. There are, I imagine, few subjects in surgery more urgent at the present time than the treatment of malignant growths which have passed the stage in which they are capable of being removed by operation. For such cases there is nothing left. The patient may be young and in the full vigour of life, with in every other respect a prospect of a long career before him ; or he may be old and fast breaking up ; it makes abso- lutely no difference. The limits of operation have been reached, there is nothing more to be done. And the number of these cases is not only a very large one, but according to the Registrar-General's statistics shows very little sign of decreasing. It is possible that with improved methods of diagnosis, and as the not altogether unreasonable dread of operation grows less, it may fall to some extent. As matters stand, it is unfortunately only too true that hopeless recurrence is the fate of the greater number of those who suffer from sarcoma or carcinoma, whether they are operated upon or not. Nor is this all. This subject does not concern those only who have passed beyond the limits in which removal is pos- sible. It concerns no less all those who suffer from malignant disease of any kind, whether they are capable of being operated upon or not. Whatever may be said in favour of our present method of deahng with malignant disease, it is impossible to argue that, even when it is successful, it is an ideal one, or incapable of improvement. In the vast majority of in-