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NEW AND SUCCESSFUL MODE

OF TREATING

CERTAIN FORMS OF CANCER.

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NEW AND SUCCESSFUL MODE

OF TREATING

CERTAIN FORMS OF CANCER.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A SHORT PRACTICAL AND SYSTEMATIC
DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE VARIETIES OF THIS DISEASE,

SHOWING HOW TO DISTINGUISH THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER,
AND FROM TUMOURS, ETC., SIMULATING THEM.

SECOND EDITION.

BY

ALEXANDER MARSDEN, M.D., F.R.C.S.E.,

SENIOR SURGEON TO THE CANCER HOSPITAL, LONDON AND BROMPTON, AND CONSULTING SURGEON TO THE
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN ROAD, FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, ETC.,
LATE SURGEON TO THE AMBULANCE CORPS BEFORE SEVASTOPOL, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, AND CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM, ETC. ETC.

RC261 M36 1844

FIRST EDITION, 1869.

Dedicated to the Committee of Management of the
Cancer Hospital,

GENTLEMEN,

Ir is to your exertions and excellent management that the Cancer Hospital owes its present prosperous position; and it is to you I owe the opportunities I have had of studying this disease on an extensive scale (6,000 cases). It affords me the greatest pleasure to thank you for the liberal means you have always placed at the disposal of your medical staff for the benefit of the patients no restrictions of any kind having been placed on the use of expensive medicines, surgical appliances, nutritious diet, wine, &c., making your institution resemble a Home for the Sick more than an

ordinary hospital; and while you have invariably afforded us every opportunity of trying all new

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