DISEASED GROWTHS. 395 



For cancers, an early and extensive removal with the knife 

 may be said to hold out the only hope. The whole organ in 

 which the cancer grows should be cut out, as a rule, to insure 

 the removal of all diseased elements, and any interference is to 

 be deprecated when the adjacent lymphatic glands are already 

 enlarged. 



Attempts have been made to dissolve and remove cancers 

 and other tumours with pepsin, and with considerable success, 

 the agent virtually digesting the diseased products with little 

 pain, while the healthy tissues remain unaffected. 



