2 CULREPERs ENGLISH: PHYSICLAN, 
due time, a cancer, might. often-be cured; but, after the diforder has arrived at, 2 
certain height, it generally, fetsyall medicine at defiance... When a fcirrhous tumour 
is, firkt difcovered, the patient ought to obferve.a proper regimen, and to take-twice 
or thrice a-week a dofe,of the common purging mercurial pill, Some blood may 
~alfo.be let, andthe part affected may be gently rubbed twice a-day with a little of 
the mercurial ointment, and kept warm with fur or flannel. .The food muff be 
light, and an Englifh pint of the decoction of farfaparilla may be drunk daily, 
Should the tumour not yield to this treatment, but, on the contrary, become larger 
and harder, it will. be proper to extirpate it, either by the knife or cauftic, Indeed, 
. whenever this can be done with fafety, the fooner it is done the better. It can an- 
{wer no purpofe to extirpate a cancer after the conftitution is ruined, or thé whole 
mafs of humours corrupted, by it. . This however is the;common way, which makes 
the operation fo feldom fucceed. Few people will fubmit to the extirpation’ till 
death ftares them in the face; whereas, if it were done early, the patient’s life would 
‘Dot be endangered by the operation, and it would geherally prove a radical: cure; 
The medicine moft in repute for this difeafe is hemlock. Dr. Stork, phyfician»at 
Vienna, has of late recommended the extract of this plant as very efficaciousin cane 
cers of every kind. The Doctor fays, he has given fome hundred-weights of it 
without ever hurting any body, and often with manifeft advantage. He advifes the 
patient however to begin with very {mall dofes, as two or three grains, and to increafe 
the dofe gradually till fome good effect be perceived, and there to reft without fur- 
ther increafe. From two or three grains at firft, the Doétor fays he has increafed the: 
dofe t to two, three, or four, drachms a-day, and finds that fuch dofes may be conti- 
nued for feveral weeks without any | bad confequences. The Doétor does not pre- 
tend to fix thet time in which a cancer may be refolved by the ule of hemlock, but 
fays he has given it for above two years in large dofes. without any apparent benefit, 
-neverthelefs the patient has been cured by perfifting in the ufe of it for half a year 
longer. _ This is at leaft encouragement to giveitafair trial. The powder of hem- 
Jock is by fome preferred to the extraét. They are both made of the freth leaves, 
as be ufed nearly i in the fame manner, Dr. Nicholfon, of Berwick, fays, he 
i 7 clean. This ought never ay negledted.. The beft 
this purpofe {eems to be the carrot poultice. The root of the.com- 
Stated, an rations sake neh risa will. bring it to the 
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