180 Case of Cancer. 



XII. Case of Cancer successfully treated with Arsenic. 

 Communicated in a letter to the Editor, by Dr. 

 George Stevenson, of Pittsburgh, in Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



A CASE of Cancer having been lately success- 

 fully treated, in an unusual manner, I have thought pro- 

 per to communicate it to you. 



Mr. R., in his 73d year, applied to me for the cure 

 of a cancer in his lip, of twelve months standing. The 

 lip was so enlarged as to project beyond the chin, was 

 painful, and in a state nearly callous. 



Mr. R. being unwilling to submit to the knife, I 

 proposed to attempt the removal of the cancer by liga- 

 tures, to which he acceded. Six ligatures were, accor- 

 dingly, used, which embraced the whole cancer. They 

 were gradually tightened, as circumstances permitted. 



Arsenicum album, in form of an ungent, with Ax- 

 ung. Pore, was daily applied to the edges, and pills of 

 the same mineral with opium, in doses of one six- 

 teenth of a grain, administered internally three times a 

 dav, for nearly six weeks. — Poultices of milk and 

 bread were occasionally applied. A suppuration took 

 place ; the parts without the ligatures separated from 

 the sound parts, and afterwards a stratum of a quarter 

 of an inch in breadth, leaving the parts beneath per- 

 fectly smooth; granulations formed a new lip so con: 



