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part very even. He observes, that he laid the entire bone bare, wherever the 

 tumour touched, even down to the ala of the nose of that side. 



Observ. the 3d was on a cancerous tumor of the same nature, and in the same 

 situation, and the treatment just the same ; it was as large as a filbert, and the 

 officer was afflicted with it 20 years. It differed from the former only in this, 

 that the year before the officer came to Marseilles, to put himself under Mons. 

 Daviel's cure, the tumor broke, and discharged a very fetid acrimonious matter, 

 which, running into the eye, brought on a troublesome ophthalmia, and the 

 edges were livid, and had a very terrible aspect. As to his operation, it consisted, 

 as before, of a total extirpation of the cancer, periosteum and all, to the bare 

 bone. He dressed the bone with dry lint only, and his digestive was a mixture 

 of the linimentum Arcaei, with the unguentum styracis : and in about 1 9 days he 

 was so perfectly cured, that when he returned to his friends, several of them 

 asked him, on which eye the operation had been made ? 



Observ. 4, differed in nothing from the former. '1 



Observ. 5, On a cancerous tumour on the nose, which reached from the root 

 of the nose down to the middle of the cartilage. He treated it in the same 

 manner, taking off the whole with the periosteum ; and, as it was partly upon 

 the cartilage, he also cut away the perichondrium, laying that, as well as the 

 bone, bare : and the cure was completed, without leaving any deformity behind, 

 in 18 days. 



Observ. 6. Of a cancerous tumor on the great angle of the right eye of a 

 woman at Marseilles, of 70 years old. This he treated exactly in the same 

 manner, and she was cured in 20 days. 



The 7 th observation mentioned another cancerous tumor on the nose, and its 

 cartilage, of a gentleman, which was circumstantially the same with the former : 

 it was cured in 5 days. After this case he makes this conclusion : that from all 

 that has been already said, it is plain, that the seat of the cancers of the eye lids, 

 nose, and other neighbouring parts, is absolutely in the periosteum and peri- 

 chondrium, as well as the fat ; and that there can be no hopes of a cure without 

 taking off these membranes, with the fat, and even any parts of the very carti- 

 lages that may be contaminated : but that in this manner they are as curable as 

 cancers on other parts of the body, notwithstanding what all oculists have said to 

 the contrary. 



The 8th observation was on a cancer on the lower eye-lid of a woman, cured 

 in the same manner. 



The gth observation treats on a cancer,as large as a large filbert, in the angle, 

 and on the lower lid of the eye of a gentleman; which began by a small tu- 

 bercle in the angle, and was pulled off, and grew again several times. Mons. 

 Daviel was consulted, in the presence of another surgeon, Mons. Maillot, and 



