Cancer: Its Cause and Treatment, Volume 2 (of 2)Bulkley, Lucius Duncan
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Cancer: Its Cause and Treatment, Volume 2 (of 2)
Bulkley, Lucius Duncan
Cancer
First I want to recall to you the report of the interesting and
remarkable case which was made at our last lecture by Dr. C., one of
your number, who promised that if possible the patient would be
presented at a later lecture. This was in the person of a lady, now
about fifty, seen nearly ten years ago, who presented a great mass of
disease in the lower abdomen. On consultation it was decided to attempt
an operation, which was performed by Dr. ——, a well known surgeon. On
opening the abdomen there was found an amount of malignant tissue,
involving many organs to such a degree that it was decided that no
removal was possible, and the wound was closed, after securing a section
for microscopic study. This was examined by Dr. H., a well known
pathologist, and found to be sarcoma.
About that time, nine or ten years ago, I had briefly spoken in one of
my lectures about the value of an absolutely vegetarian diet and medical
treatment in cancer, and Dr. C., thinking, as he told us, that it might
possibly be of advantage to her, in prolonging life or perhaps making it
more comfortable, placed her upon it. He has followed the case up to the
present time, and stated to us that there was now no evidence of the
disease, the abdomen being normal under every examination possible.
Surely one such case should be sufficient to direct serious attention to
a plan of treatment capable of securing such a result in a patient who
is now living in comfort, nine years and more after the surgical removal
of the tumor was found to be impossible, and who would otherwise have
been dead long ago.
In my former lectures I detailed eight cases of undoubted breast cancer,
verified by surgeons, some of them well known, in which the results
obtained by the methods I have been presenting were most gratifying, and
I need but refer you to the account of them given in my book in which
the lectures were published.
You will perhaps remember that the first two cases had been followed up
for sixteen years and had remained well, without operation; the next two
cases, curiously enough, had each been observed for over nine years, and
as they are still under my medical care for various complaints I can add
two years more, making over eleven years that they have remained well,
without operation.
In those lectures I stated that I had recorded on my books in private
practise a total of 744 patients with Epithelioma, Carcinoma, and
Sarcoma. I now find recorded in private and hospital practise a total of
196 cases of carcinoma, 36 of sarcoma, and 685 of epithelioma, a total
of 917 cases of malignant disease. There are also records of some dozens
of cases of adenoma, cysts and chronic mastitis, etc., of the breast,
besides fibroma, lipoma, angioma, papilloma, etc., generally benign in
character, in various locations, all of which are, of course, excluded
from our study.
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