An essay on the effects of carbonate of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that disease / by Richard Carmichael.

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849.
Date:
1806
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Credit: An essay on the effects of carbonate of iron, upon cancer : with an inquiry into the nature of that disease / by Richard Carmichael. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and discharged a thin Ichor, while redness and induration extended over the greater part of her Nose, so that there were serious apprehensions, that the Cartilage and bones were engaged in the-disease. But on the use of Iron, the pain in a few hours ceased, and the application not having been. disturbed for two days, formed a scab which fell off at the end of that time, leaving the sore evidently amended, and discharging healthy looking matter.—^The Rust was applied daily till the I6th instant, w^hen a dry crust formed, which dropping off in a few days, left the paits completely healed. Thus this Young Lady was cured of a disease in six days, which had obstinately withstood for as many years, the most powerful remedies here- tofore employed in this disorder. CASE IV, Thom*as Smyth, aged 40, of an inert habit of body, was admitted in October 1805, into tiie Hospital of the House of Industry, on ^ccoimt of two Cancerous Ulcers, one situiatedon liie Scrotum, and the other on the calf of the Leg.—^ The