The patient was suffering from heart and bowel troubles, and female diseases. Various spinal lesions were found. By four treatments the tumors were loosened and passed, there being several of them, varying in size from that of a hen's egg to that of a walnut. Numerous cases have been saved by this means from the surgeon's knife. While many tumors cannot be cured, the treatment merits a trial in every case before operation be submitted to.
Some lesions cause tumorous growths by direct irritation of the tissues.
A frequent cause of tumors is found in lesion to the lymphatic drainage of a part, through direct pressure upon its lymphatic vessels or by constrictor effect upon them by lesion to the vaso-motor and sympathetic nerve supply. Tumors of the breast are very often due to such a cause. The common lesions in tumor of the breast are found at the clavicle, first rib, among the upper five or six ribs, or among the corresponding vertebrae. Abdominal tumors are commonly caused by lower rib and lower vertebral lesions, uterine tumors by sacral or lumbar lesions, etc. Correcting anatomical relation is the main point, and commonly no manipulation directly upon the tumor is required, yet such a measure is sometimes employed to soften a fatty tumor and aid in its absorption, or to loosen a fibroid growth, several such having thus been loosened and discharged per rectum or per vaginam.