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used, to have it done by or under the care of a physician, so as to prevent any 

 possible injury; although, if properly used, there is everything to encourage 

 the hope of great benefit, rather than injury; but it is best, always, to be on the 

 safe side, hence this caution. 



5. Cancer, Relief of Pain in. — Dr. Brandini, of Florence, Italy, has 

 recently discovered that citric acid will assuage (relieve) the violent pain of 

 cancer. He applies to the part pledgets of lint soaked in a solution of citric 

 acid, 4 grs.; dissolved in soft water, 350 grs. (about % oz.), with the result of 

 affording instantaneous relief in the most aggravated ca.ses. 



6. Cancer, Chromic Acid Found Valuable in.— Prof. John 

 King, in his American Dispensatory, more than a dozen years ago, spoke of 



chromic acid being found advantageous in cancers, malignant tumors, ulcers, 

 etc 



Remarks. — The word "malignant," as applied to tumors, is generally 

 understood to refer to those of a cancerous character, "tending," as Webster 

 puts it, "to produce death, threatening a fatal issue," etc., and this fact gives 

 me hopes, especially, that the chloride of chromium. No. 3, above, which is 

 only another form of the chromium, wil? do what is there claimed for it, com- 

 bined with the stramonium ointment. The acid, however, is being used more, 

 of late, than formerly, as the following will show. 



7. Cancer, or Fungous Growth in the Ear— Removed Safely 

 with Chromic Acid. — Dr. Tangeman, Professor in the Medical College of 

 Ohio, at Cincinnati, in Parke, Davis & Co.'s Tlierapeutic Gazette, reports the 

 case of a young man of 18, with a running ear. The meatus, or opening into 

 the ear, at the bottom was full of pus, or matter; the tympanum, or drum, of 

 the ear wholly destroyed, and the inner ear filled with a fungus, or cancerlike 

 growth; the boy wholly deaf on that side, the result of scarlet fever. The ear 

 was packed with powdered boracic acid, which dissolved in 24 hours, and 

 was repacked with the same, and repeated 4 weeks, but the fungus, or lacerous 

 growth, had to be removed by a few applications of chromic acid, and the 

 opening enlarged by it so they could get to the bones of the ear, which were 

 necrosed (destroyed), it being the cause of the discharge. The case was cured. 



Nitrate of silver was formerly used in such cases, but Dr. Tangeman 

 thinks its use in ear cases is among the past, and that chromic acid will take its 

 place; but, from its activity, must be used with care. It should not be put on 

 too freely in any case, as to endanger, or extend to other parts. 



Yet chromic acid will not continue, like other acids, to eat on indefinitely, 

 but as a particle of it destroys a particle of flesh, or fungus, it is itself de- 

 stroyed. This peculiarity shows its great value over all other caustics or destroy 

 ers known. See its value for warts, under that head. Best to be used under 

 the care of a competent physician, or one accustomed to its use, especially in 

 cancers where considerable tissue, or fleshy tumors, are to be destroyed. 



8. M. Czartoryski, M. D., of Stockton, Cal., says in the Medical Brief, of 

 June, 1884, under the head of " Cancer— California Cure ": 



" I accidentally discovered the secret process, by which an old man, living 

 in this vicinity, has had remarkable success in removing cancers. He takes 



