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Canniff, William

 
9781334530128: A Manual of the Principles of Surgery, Based on Pathology (Classic Reprint): For Students: For Students (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Practical guidance on managing cancer and its symptoms, with a focus on safer, less-irritating approaches. This section surveys several traditional treatments, weighing their usefulness and risks. It explains how surgeons have approached tumor removal, bleeding control, and palliative care, describing when and why certain methods may help or harm the patient.

In these pages, you’ll find a historical view of:
- Local treatments for cancer that aim to reduce irritation and bleeding, including bandages, poultices, and opium-based applications.
- Surgical techniques for ligation of arteries, including how to place a ligature to minimize tissue damage and promote healing.
- Alternative ideas such as conge lation, caustics, and new ideas like acupressure, with notes on their perceived value and limitations.
- The differences between epithelial cancer and other forms, and why some forms respond differently to treatment or removal.

- How bleeding and wound healing relate to saving the patient’s strength and avoiding secondary complications.
- The balance between removing a tumor and allowing the body to heal, including cautions about the timing and method of intervention.
- A practical, measured approach to palliative care and maintaining quality of life when cure is unlikely.

Ideal for readers seeking a historical, surgeon’s-eye view of cancer treatment, surgical technique, and symptom management.

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Excerpt from A Manual of the Principles of Surgery, Based on Pathology: For Students

Although the inflammatory process and the healing process are distinguished by a separate consideration, I shall endeavor to Show that healthy inflammatory action is a step - a first step - in the process of healing; that, while healing more expeditiously takes place when inflammation is absent, yet, under certain circum stances, the inflammatory process is necessary to prepare the way and supply the means for successful healing. When, however, the inflammatory action is unhealthy, when there is presented some one of the several varieties of inflammation, then there is a de facto disease. The distinction between the two will be found to be the same as that which exists between a healthy ulcer and an unhealthy one when, in the former, healing kindly takes place in accordance with physiological laws, and in the latter it fails to take place.

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