An essay on the effects of the fucus helminthocorton upon cancer : more especially in the stage denominated occult : with a concise enquiry into the origin and nature of the disease, and the probable way in which the dispersion of these tumours is effected : together with observations on the various modes of practice ... enabling the reader at one view to become acquainted with every method now pursuing for the cure of this malady / by William Farr.

  • Farr, William.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An essay on the effects of the fucus helminthocorton upon cancer : more especially in the stage denominated occult : with a concise enquiry into the origin and nature of the disease, and the probable way in which the dispersion of these tumours is effected : together with observations on the various modes of practice ... enabling the reader at one view to become acquainted with every method now pursuing for the cure of this malady / by William Farr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. In presenting to the world, an essay which proposes a method of treatment entirely novel in its nature and effects, for the cure of so formidable a disease as Cancer,—I am con- scious, that all I may advance on this subject will be in opposition, both to the opinions and practice of those who have been eminent in the profession, from the earliest ages to the present; all of which go to prove the insuf- ficiency of human wisdom to devise a suc- cessful method for the treatment of this most destructive malady, This, of itself, is sufficient to deter any man, however well qualified he may be, either b