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events to check their growth ; for that purpose alkalies, 

 mercury, arsenic, and iodine have been tried but 

 signally failed. The treatment of cancer of the liver, 

 says % Murchison, must be entirely palliative. Mercury, 

 iodine, arsenic, and the sanguinaria canadensis, have 

 proved worse than useless. The attempts, says 

 Frerichs, which were formerly made, and continue 

 to be made at the present day, to cure cancer of the 

 liver by means of the preparations of iodine, mercury, 

 and arsenic, and the waters of Karlsbad, are very 

 objectionable ; and hasten the advent of death by many 

 months, or even years. Conium was recommended 

 by Hahnemann ; belladonna, by Alberti ; the muriate 

 of baryta, by Hufeland ; aconite, by Greding ; digitalis, 

 by Mayer ; corrosive sublimate, by Euysch ; mezereon, 

 by Home ; the solanum nigrum, as far back as the 

 Arabian era of medicine, and the various preparations 

 of iron by Carmichael. 



HOMGEOPATHICALLY. Although we are unable to boast 

 of possessing any specific drug that will attack and destroy 

 the cancer germ, nevertheless we are able to do much, 

 to control symptoms, subdue pain, and prolong life. 

 Having ascertained the real nature of the case, every 

 measure of a debilitating nature should be strictly avoided. 



The pains which attend the development of cancer 

 and when the peritoneal covering becomes implicated 

 should be met by Aconite, Bell., and Bnj. : warm fomen- 

 tations, cataplasms, and warm baths. To grapple with 

 the cancer germ, Ars., Merc, iod., and Phosph. are well 

 worthy of a fair and prolonged trial; and should the 

 stomach become implicated, the Arg. nit. and Nux. 

 . will prove valuable agents. 



