, Nbiices respecting NetO Boohs, 67 



fers ir> too wdl known in its fatality to require any intro- 

 ductory remarks, but the remedies have for ihe most part 

 heen eoncealed lrr)m the public. Hcnee, i?/)litary suecess- 

 tiil cases. ou'y having been published with care, the faculty 

 have been unable lo judiie of the comparative value of a. 

 remedy th-ev could know but imperfect Iv". Nothing there- 

 fore could be more desirable than a p-.ri'orniance like Mr. 

 Curnncha^l's, nor could anv thing be ushered into the. 

 world with more modesty or pn^prietv. *' When I first 

 published," iays the author, *' my Essay on the Etfecls of. 

 Carl)onale of Iron upon Cancer, there was naihing I so 

 much dreaded as the loo sanguine expectation ot the public, 

 and that a remedv that succeeded in one instance would 

 he required in every other tt) overcome this disease in all its 

 stages, or be rejected as useless because it could not per- 

 form impossibihtics. My own hopes were but moderate, 

 and 1 v^as careful that they should not wander far beyond 

 the certainty of my CNperience; but my experience was sa 

 circumscribed, that 1 could merely gues^ at the virtues of 

 the medicine rather than appreciate its value. 'I'his is a 

 misfortune I have not now to complain of; — many and va- 

 rious are the cases a short interval has i)rougbt vvi-hin my 

 c.^re or ooservalion — alike in their sympfoms, hcnvever dif- 

 ferent their circumstances-— and variable the event of suc- 

 cess or disapp')intinent. But if experience has taught me, 

 that in particular instances the medicine may prove ineffi- 

 cacious, and must, where the, ravages of the malady are 

 great and expensive, yet I had almost universally the satis- 

 faction of discovering its efficacv, wherever tiic cancerous 

 mass was not verv much enlarged : and even wbtn this was 

 the case, instances \\ ere not wanting of a perfect recovery, 

 and seldom indeed did it happen that the disease was unal- 

 leviated by the medicine," 



It is no small compliment to the author, that his pro- 

 posed remedy has l>eeu pretty iienerally adopted bv many 

 of the mo?t eniinent of the London faculty, and that this 

 adoption is becoming d.ady mora treneral. 



The plan pursuedin the arrangement of the work is as 

 follows : 



Ist. A detail of the most remarkable cases within the 

 author';? knowledge, — These are subdivided into such as 

 U'ere cur<^d by iron — such as were alleviated^ and such as 

 i^ere neither cured nor alleviated. 



2d. 'I'he opinions of the ancients and moderns concern- 

 iiis cancer. 



3d. Coitsideration ')f the nature of cancer. 



E 2 4th. 



