Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-03-09
Cancers.

The dreadful and apparently incurable
disease, known as Il cancer. is one which
seems to have baliled the skill Of the greats
cst physicians. Well knowing how many
lives are lost Ivy its attacks, we are always
pleased when VIC can make any suggestions
that may attract the attention of our medical
friends. We have recently published a
remedy adopted by an English physician,
which we see is everywhere copied, We
now refer to another. DIR. IIannon, in the
BrussclIs Presse Nedjc0ie, proposes the
use of maglneso, in the treatment 81 cancer.
Ills views are interesting and important,
aoI we give a condensation of them from
he last number Of tie LonI0n Medical
Times:
"Gf cancer. of which little is known but
the rr0@rosis diagnosis. he relates a case
III which he used the proto-ioduret, appar-
anIy with much success, at least, so far
HAT those terrible characters of this fearful
maIady, the state of cachcXia with straw
coored complexion, emaciauon, and dcbili-
~, which almost always result from the in
iIgcnce of the system, entirely disappeared
and the patient fau,ied she would be cured;
st any rate, the progress Of the discase
seems to have been arrested under the use
Of the magancsc. 1t IS mere t'.au a wear
sin"e the woman commenced it, and, al
lho05h she still suffers the usual lancinating
pain of cancer, the constitutional symptoms
have rot reappcared, For my own part,
be- says, the remarks of Mcckcli, BccIard,
loh>lcin, Hastings, GruitIusan, and Kali.
cl1funner, on the progressive organization
animals can create nothing, yet they can
form, out of ultimate elements, certain new
compounds endowed with irrabiIily; amp
Mat this cancer is a new secretion, dcp0s.
i'el in the form of organiZible lymph, CON
ulning from the first, within itself, the rtldi-
mcnIs of lis own future existence; and this,
where canccrous dialhcsis exists, or, in
constitution ii which aiy inflammation of lie
several tissues has n tendency to this rather
than any other termination. In DIR. Cars
Wells excellent paper on the subject, he
addnres very strong evidence, that the for
nation OF TIC Carcin0matous substance
tlkcs place in the blood and DR.. Ilannon,
in the article before us, attributes the mc;o-
ration Of his patient Under the use of man
gaucsc to the action of this new remedy up
az the blood itself. Monsieur Million late.
ly read 4 memoir upon human blood, before
The Academy of Science in Paris, in which
he stated, that silva, manganese, lead, and
copper, were always found to be united
with iron in the blood giubules. DIR. Han
non has repeated these experiments; and,
although he failed in detecting copper and
lead, he always found manganese 1t will
be interesting, and it may, yield 10 import
ami rcsults-to follow ont the views of Dr.
lIannon, and to ascertain, by comparative
analysis, the existence of manganese in the
blood of canccrous and non cancerous per-
sons. DR.. Harmon also recommends this
new remedy in chlorouc cases, and assures
us, that, under its use, "n a short time, the
patients regain their color, their lips become
red, the coniunclive loses It's pallor, and the
bruiI du souille of the heart ceases.