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 VIII._—Mrs. H. F. J., aged 52, weighing 102 pounds, was first seen
August 3, 1916. She had been under an absolutely vegetarian diet (green
card) since July 17th, and was feeling better than before. She had had
three children, 27, 25, and 16 years of age, the menses had been regular
up to April 15, then nothing up to July 1st, when there was a clotted
flow, checked by treatment, which had returned in two weeks, with pain,
after an auto ride. On July 14th she was examined by two physicians who
found cancer of the cervix, which was confirmed by Dr. Janeway on July
31st, who reported “cancer of the cervix and vaginal canal, with some
cauliflower excrescence; the uterus was not much enlarged or fixed.” She
received one application of radium on August 1st, 300 mil. Curies to the
canal, and 120 to the cervix, for 12 hours.
She was given the same mixture as Mrs. F. L. A. and the “green card
diet,” and the injection of carbolic acid and biborate of soda. Briefly,
to report further, on September 30th it was recorded that she had
improved every day; she had gained steadily, and again on September 30th
that she had improved every day. She had a good appetite and was getting
back her strength, and seemed “quite like herself again.”
On October 20th Dr. Janeway reported that Mrs. H. F. J. was “free from
disease, although the healing is not quite complete.” This is, of
course, a very recent case, but the progress has been so satisfactory
that in view of the former case and the results so often obtained when
all proper measures are carefully carried out, there is reasonable
expectation that this will also result in a cure.
I will not dwell longer on carcinoma, though if I had time I could
relate many other interesting and instructive cases, showing
satisfactory results of treatment. My experience has naturally been
principally with the disease as it affects the breast, and many of the
patients affected elsewhere I have seen in consultation, or only a few
times, though some have been faithful to prolonged treatment.
But if the thesis which I have tried to establish in these and my former
lectures is correct, then sooner or later we will be able to apply the
same principles, more fully developed and more perfectly adjusted, to
cancer in other locations. And as the public and profession are better
educated along these lines patients will apply earlier, and the
pre-cancerous constitutional relations will be recognized and treated
before the cancerous mass has gained such headway. There can be little
doubt but that the same principles of treatment and prophylaxis apply
equally to the cancerous process wherever the primary lesion has first
developed.
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