The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

LITBR ATURB.

Report of Me Saryieal Staff of the Middlesex
Hospital to Me Weekly Board of Ilormsors upon
the Treatment of Cancerous Diseases in the
Hospital, on the Plan introduced by Dr. Fell.
Printed by order of the Quarterly Court. London :
Churchill, 1857.

A short time since an American physician, Dr.
Fell, made a considerable sensation in the metro-
polis by his method of treating Cancer. His sppll-
cations were a secret, but his success was such as to
acquire the confidence of several educated medical
men. The weekly board of the Middlesex Hos-
pital, alive to the importance of doing all in their
power to advance the treatment of such an intract-
able complaint as cancer, entered into conununica-
lion with Dr. Fell, who after some time proposed to
disclose his remedies under these conditions :

1. That twenty-fln ewes shall be 'sleeted by the sur-
geons and myself (fair miss), and placed la my entire care in
one of ths wards of the hospital. until the disease a entirely
remind arl a healthy sore pre
2. She drag to be occupied in the trestmani of the mid
mem sot to retied over • period of more than eight months,
without the emaseelt of both parties..

3. That no person or peeanas shall see the cans while
under freehand, incept the surgeons and physicians atlas
hospital, without my odisent, and that no student, nurse, or
oder person alma be aimed to remove or interfere with my
esehtitil. T the dinned memo when removed shall be pre-
served and kept in the mounds the hospital for at lean
one year.
6. That la the event of these condition* being eatisfectory
to the medial board and the governors, I will oommiantrate
to the surgeons of the hospital the remedies sad plan of
treatment pursued by me, upon their pledging themselves not
to weal or nee ibe same without toy cement until a period of
Is maths shall hey* ,aphid, when they shall have full
=s to do no. As I am *boat to publieh • work upon the
sad its thestment, the shove is ,imply to reserve to
aril/ the power of throwing tha treatment open to the pro-
fusion . .

0. That upon the conclusion of the treatment of the rases
placed under my rare in the hospital to the aatiaLctiun of the
surgeon*, I shall receive an acknowledgment to that effect
from your honourable hoard of governors.
During six months Dr. Fell treated about sixty
eases under the inspection of the surgical officers of
the hospital. Ile ha. nines published his mode of
treatment ; but as it am only be practised he an cx-
perienced surgeon, anti requires considerable care
and skill in its application, we think it unfitted for
the columns of a newspaper. Those interested may
find every detail in Dr. Fell's work, and in the Re-
port of the Middlesex Surgical Staff.
The surgical officers of the Middlesex Hospital
I have come to the conclusion that I/r. Fell has made
on the whole a considerable improvement in the
heatment of Cancer, though what they conceive
to be the t Ificacious parts of his remedies were not
new, and that which was new the/ believe to be
inert, yet his method of application was novel,
and his invention has placed in the hands of ear-
s method which "claims henceforth their
es
frequent adoption in the treatment of cancerous
turnouts, as well as a grateful acknowledgment of
the ingenuity of their invct,tor."
We think the public are deep:y iudebtcd, both to
the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital for the
liberality with which they opined their 'gavial
ward to Dr. Fell, and to their surgical officers, for
the very lucid and candid Report they have pub-
lished of Dr. Fell's method of treatment.

TIIR if ORTICf LTC'S M. SOCILTS.—The scuon is
about to roininenn, and prvirninw to be ona of mach activity.
On Tuesday the first meeting tikes pines in Reg nt-etrest,
for the 'listen of new Fall ws. On Saturday. the 24th of
October, is the rest fruit show. oyes to all the world at
Willid• Routs and on 'mom boy lb. floroonto,
mum,.. will f• 11 lot arising Ito Cow-
ruin, Fellow• who shell bare applied for then. Early in
January prof. Lindley Is In deliver half n dozen lectures on
Elaiantriary Botany to reltows and their friends. In F.
Maar,. March, end May meting. will le held in Longon
se weal la April More ie to he a great London reeeting
Inr the exhibition of spring towers and fruit. The mond
week in Jena is to be derriel to a greed exhibition at the
ge-dee, nf flowers, knit, and hortien:taral implements, &tee
et Isms snowing wachinee taking Pam on lin Tuesday, the
exhibition itself being held on the Weelseed,iy and Thurs-
day, and the merits of the various, beating soperstua form-
ing the ritiket of • lecture no the Friday. July Is to pro.
dam • grand exhibitions of fruit, rises, ferns, ore ; end is
the same month half • dorm les-titres on breezy applied to
borheultar• will close the serc.no.—Gord, nerd Minnick

•
NSW ROAD ►oft TIIF. EMIT ENO OF tomnom.—
At the meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works yeller-
day, Mr. J. Thwaitea in the chair, a report we brought up
hos the Committee of Works nod Itoprevemente, meet-
maseliair the lame ion of a reed between the FAO India
Doak-Iced ad Bow-rowl. and the improvement of the I•ridew
et tie beleen Came. Railway, in Grove-read, and the
brklip ear Mr Norge Diecluet's canal in the 0r0..-road,
Me estimeted met to the lloor4 being 27,2011. Mr. Diem
eild If this Teed wee made it emull be tha preennor of mo•
tiler peat seetiopnliem improvement, and wield aalet the
Clay dLemies fa maim a coeminsication with the 'teem-
leery at the leM of Dv e, and thus relieve the crowded ercets
of
Laminae( a lane amount of the beery traffic by which its
sbeete =meat mem, impeded. After mule dimmed= a re-
solver Is &veer of the ter.,mmendation of the committee
wee screed to by a majority elf 17 to 3.

Pineisr SIMOTING.—The reports from the
COMS an, that there are pl,nty of rheeetuts. The wo..da
here amounted a mart approval:ire, t nt tLe hasp la yet eery
thick and hearv, Red it will require an expert shot to bring
goys a " Hers'd.