The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-05-23
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From tho Rome Sentinel C1ene, y. " Oct. IL.
Although the treatment of cancer has
for many years been the special study
and vocation of one of our most success
full physicians-a regular graduate, who
has had an experience of twenty years
in the practice of medicine, and for the
past sixteen years has lived among US
few of our citizens are aware of the ex-
tent to which the disease exists, and
know but little of its loathsome charac-
ter, and have perhaps but faint idea
of the work that is being done right
here among us to arrest that malignant
growth, which. by its hitherto almost
uninterrupted progress, has destroyed
many human lives. For the purpose of
giving our readers an inkling of what is
going on, we made it our business on
Thursday last to visit the principal
hospital of DR.. Kingsley, on Spring
street, in this city Rome, n. W, in
search of such information regarding
the disease of cancer and its treatment
as might be of interest to the public.
Let it be understood at the beginning
that we do not take up this subject for
the purpose of eulogizing the distin-
guished gentleman who has proved him
self benefactor to suffering mankind
by perfecting cure for that terrible
and destructive disease which has baffled
the skill of the most learned since the
world began. We are not aware that
we could, if we would, add to the high
reputation of his skill at home hence
eulogium would seem entirely un-
called for and unnecessary. 1t is enough
to say that we knew him by his deeds.
Let history do him justice.
From thirty to sixty patients are con-
stantly under treatment. Some are
coming, some are going daily. They
come from all parts of the United States
and Canada. Light cases are cured in
a week or two; severe cases require sew
eral weeks, and the worst sometimes
several months. Many come who have
allowed the disease to gain such terrible
headway as to render a cure impossible ;
the powers of life have been nearly over
come, and it were folly to attempt a
cure. They are sent away with the as
surance that no earthly power can help
them. There are many, very many, of
this class, who, if they had come a few
months, or even q few weeks, earlier,
could have been cured. These are the
extreme cases, and a sight of one of
them is, in its frightfulness, sufficient for
lifetime. Indeed, some of the cases
taken under treatment and cured, are
dreadful almost beyond description and
belief
Inquire of the patients how their can
GERS came on, what caused them, and
you will get different answers, from
which you draw the conclusion that the
disease usually results from injury OF
some kind, such as blows bruises, cuts
burns, scalds, freezing, and so on, OF
from an obstruction of circulation OF the
blood in any location. Cancers are
liable to come on any portion of the
body, externally or internally; but the
parts most affected are, in men, some
portion of the face or head, particularly
the lip; in women the most common is
the breast, though they have them on
all parts of the head and body.
The belief has somehow gained ground
that only the aged are afflicted with
cancer. This is o mistake, though We
find that very large majority of the
patients are persons we'll advanced il
years. We have in mind the case of q
boy four and n half years old, son o.
Mr. Nicholas Gullar, of New Yorl
Mills, who had cancer of the right
eye, and had it cut out by some prac
titioner, we know not who, in July last
The eyeball was taken out entirely, bu
the roots of the disease remained, anC
the cancer again began to grow until i
reached an immense size, covering the
whole right side of the face and involv
ing the brain through the optive nerve
DIR. Kingsley, on the 10th of Angus
last, pronounced it an incurahle case o
the most malignant character. TIL,
boy had suffered with it a great deal
and his parents were nearly distracted
to learn that he could not be cured, bu
there was no help in the case, and, i
the boy is still alive it is almost mira
Gle. [Since writing the foregoing, w
learn that the boy died some thre
} weeks ago. Some time since canoe
was removed by DIR. X. from the tongu
of a>child eight months old, belongin!
to Mr.. VIM. Cheeseman, formerly al
employee of the Rome, Watertown 4
Ogdensburg Railroad. These are cite'
to show that the young as well as tn
old are liable to be afflicted with tn
scourge.
In their incipient or beginning stag
cancers are deceptive. Those that com
on the lip, the patients will tell you, be
) gin in the form of crust or brann
scale, which frequently peels off an
another takes its place. Sometimes the
come like cold-sores. Little or no pai
accompanies the progress, consequent
the person having the difficulty is no
, alarmed until perhaps the disease is fla
advanced and has become of seriou
j character. Many do not realize thei
dangerous condition until the growth
, so far advanced that a cure is impossi
: ble Or, realizing their condition, All
not knowing that they might be curet
, they die of the terrible malady. Earl
i treatment is therefore important. Th
rule that Z" q stitch in time saves nine
may be applied with particular empha
sis to the treatment of cancer. Th
i, longer the delay the more difficult til
cure, and finally no possible cure. A
the beginning the treatment is simp
o and the cure easy, as we have reason
know by personal observation.
All sorts of pains are endured by til
unfortunatcs who suffer from the DISC
4 der. Some with large cancers will te
= of shooting and darting pains, Others
stinging or burning sensations, othe
e of stabbing torture. Those who hay
e smaller cancers report an itching {
n creeping sensation, and frequently