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
This is certainly a desperate case, after four operations, but the
difference between her present condition and what she would have been
without treatment can hardly be imagined. For in these five months she
probably would have been in her grave, whereas, during all this time she
has been traveling back and forth from her home, some distance away in
New Jersey, to my office, a happy woman. What the end will be I cannot
foretell.
I want you now to see and examine a Bohemian woman who has been treated
in my medical clinic for cancer at the hospital since July 26, 1916,
something over four months.
_Case V._—Mrs. P. A., aged 46, noticed a lump in the left breast two
weeks before it was removed, in this Hospital, two years previous to her
first visit to me at the medical clinic for cancer in the hospital.
Three months later the right breast was also removed on account of a
lump found there. All seemed to go well until about a year ago, when
cutaneous nodules appeared on the chest, first around the site of the
former operations; these increased till seen, when, as she now tells
you, there were fully fifty of them, forming a veritable _cancer en
cuirasse_, absolutely inoperable, of course. She was habitually
constipated, depending on medicine.
Being placed on the “green card” diet and the same mixture, though with
considerable cascara in it, and all the affected area painted night and
morning with Thiol in olive oil, fifty per cent, she seemed to improve
at once, and it was recorded that, after removing a crust which had
formed with the thiol and talcum powder over it, all the nodules were
less red and much less elevated. A small raw surface had formed, which
was touched with thorium paste, diluted to 25 per cent. This surface was
found entirely healed two weeks later, but other larger raw surfaces
have formed from time to time, which, however, have all healed
completely and perfectly, as you can see, with the occasional use of the
diluted thorium paste.
As you see her now the entire surface over both sides of the chest is
perfectly healed, and passing my hand over all the surface there is
hardly a trace of the nodules which once were so abundant. All who know
anything about the ravages of cancer will realize the difference between
her present condition and what would have happened under ordinary
circumstances. She has had no pain since soon after beginning treatment.
I could multiply these histories indefinitely, with, of course, varying
degrees of benefit, but I will trouble you with only one more case, that
of one of the many patients in the wards of the hospital. In this case
there were at first very satisfactory results, but after a long and
brave fight on the part of the patient she at length succumbed to the
dire disease.
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