The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-04-28
General Grants Possible Recovery

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! Your leader in Yesterdays HERALI
under the caption of High Toned
/ Quaeks," is really delectable reading
( From the popular standpoint it is very
good and has the flavor of just eriti
cism. The medical profession needs g
spur now and then and perhaps it can
not be better administered than by an
editor who strikes out with the pen
from the head rather than in with the
heel
The implication of your article, how
ever, is that doctors have been mistaken
in the diagnosis. l think not. The
gentlemen who have been the medical
advisors in General Grants case would
hardly be likely to mistake
an ulcer, ordinary or extra
ordinary for cancer. If the General
is getting well their oft-repeated asser-
tions that cancer is incurable will be
disproved. 70 admit that the disease is
cancer and that possibly the General
Is to recover puts many of the lights of
the profession in an embarrassing posi-
ton. They are therefore more ready to
OO1lSSS W UldSuOSlS tlldu W
misjudgment as to the durability of
cancer.
The true explanation IN my mind is
this: During the past ten years many
of the eclectic remedies have been
adopted by the old school profession.
Many remedies which were announced
in Kings Dispensatory twenty-five or
thirty years ago have been incorporated
into the United States Dispensatory.
With these new remedies they are
likely to achieve success in the
management of the diseases hitherto
supposed to be incurable that will
greatly surprise them. do not like to
speak of my own success in treating
cancer, but will beg the indulgence OF
the reader while | state fact that &C.
CURED many wears ago, nearly twenty.
A lady was brought from Northern Yer
mont with an ugly looking cancer of
the breast. 1t was nearly as large as a
sugar bowl. The case had been dag
nosed by many physicians, and all pro-
nounced it cancer. Her friends brought
her to New York, with the intention of
having the breast amputated by the
late well-known surgeon, DR.. Van Blu
rem. But Just about the time that the
operation was to be performed, it
dawned upon the minds OF some one of
the surgical advisors that the lady was in
too weak condition constitutlonally to
an operation. 1t was thought
best to placel1er in the hands of some
good medicine man to improve her
physical tone before placing her on the
operating table. By some ones advice
the case came into my hands. On the
occasion of the first visit the husband
Of the lady was not present. When
spoke about trying 10 effect cure in
the case without the aid of surgery
was quickly and nervousiy informed
that l must not mention such a thing !
to Mr.. B., for if L did 1 should be sus-
pected of quackery and he would be I'M
willing to entrust his wife's case in my |
hands. every WE'LL" / said, ~ will |
AXE the case with the understanding
hat it shall be treated for the !
Jingle purpose of putting her
n a good condition to withstand the
hook and depletion of surger :" In
bout six months the tumor was gone
nd its removal was mainly effected by
institutional remedies. Some local
publications. were made, but nothing of
caustic or painful character. From
hat time to this /; have never heard of
ne person who thought that that was
lot cancer. The doctors and the
riends of the patient were surprised
eyond doubt at the result, but / am
realty mistaken if one of those physi-
ians went back on his diagnosis.
DR.. EDWARD BLISS FooTE. sen.
SALT LAKE CITY, April %. 1885.