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
_Case II._—Mrs. J. J. T., aged 38, was first seen August 11, 1914. She
had been confined with her first child 4 months previously, but had not
nursed the baby at all, and had no trouble with the breasts. Four weeks
before her visit she had noticed a tumor in the upper left segment of
the left breast, which had increased steadily, with considerable pain.
When seen there was a mass the size of an egg, hard, and well defined,
somewhat tender on manipulation, with some glandular enlargement in the
axilla. She was placed on an absolutely vegetarian diet, with no coffee,
and the same mixture as the preceding case, the bowels being
constipated, and the breast was kept painted with the 50 per cent
ichthyol, which was afterwards changed to iodid of lead in Hebra’s
Diachylon Ointment. Later she took thyroid extract, also iron, etc., and
maintained her weight and strength perfectly. The mass in the breast
disappeared rather slowly, and it was not until just a year later that I
find it recorded that the breast was perfectly normal, with no trace of
the tumor, nor axillary adenopathy. She was again confined of a healthy
child in June, 1916, and the surgeon who had made the original diagnosis
of cancer reported the breast perfectly normal. Seen recently she still
remains absolutely free from trouble.
_Case III._—Mrs. I. T. G., aged 43, first noticed a lump in the left
breast two weeks before her first visit, May 17, 1905; this had been
diagnosed as cancer by at least four medical men, one of them a
prominent surgeon in Hartford, who urged immediate operation. When seen
there was a hard, sharply defined mass an inch and a half in diameter in
the left breast, above the nipple; it gave pain and was painful on
pressure. Beginning with the same treatment as the other cases mentioned
the change in the tumor was most remarkable, and eight weeks later it
was recorded that there was no trace of the tumor, that both breasts
were alike. She was a large, flabby woman, weighing 207½ pounds, the
kind who do so badly after operation. She maintained her treatment
faithfully, with an absolute vegetarian diet, and when seen two years
later weighed still 199 pounds, with no return of the breast trouble.
She was seen last for quite another trouble five years and a half after
her first visit, and the breast was found perfectly normal.
There is no necessity of illustrating this part of our subject further,
but I wish to make a remark about this last case, especially in
reference to the desirability of early treatment. We hear much from the
advocates of the knife that it should be used early, and yet we all meet
cases where lumps are removed from the breast almost as soon as they are
discovered and yet there is recurrence. Early dietary and medical
treatment, in this instance two weeks after discovery of the lump, was
observed to be followed by perfect freedom for five and a half years,
and beyond question permanently, if she continues to live along proper
lines.
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