a much quicker progress than it did in others
on whom no operation had been performed_."--I believe the whole
medical profession are of the same opinion; in fact, those gentlemen
are candid enough to acknowledge that cancer is a disease over which
their art has no control. This is much to be deplored, inasmuch as it
has enabled the most unprincipled characters to practise their
impositions upon the unhappy sufferers with the greatest impunity.
What but the most consummate impudence can allow a man to assert that
he has cured a genuine cancer, when that very man does not know the
nature of cancer, or point out what is, or what is not, a malignant
disease?

Having thus described the nature and symptoms of cancer; and having
adverted to the effect of medicine upon this disease, I shall make
some remarks on the treatment of the same. I have stated there is no
specific remedy known for this disease; and that those who pretend to
such specific are IMPOSTERS of the most dangerous description; such
men will boast of "_great discoveries_;" they will sound their own
trumpet and tell you that they are men of "_great skill_;" they will
flourish a "_challenge to the world_;" and, in fact resort to every
means to entrap the unhappy sufferer, which great impudence, unbounded
ignorance, and glaring falsehoods, will enable them to do. I may also
allude to the indiscretion of those who are induced, by repeated
solicitations from such imposters, to allow their names to be appended
to cases which are false in fact, and only calculated to promote the
sordid motives of such characters. The attestators are thus led to
countenance an infamous species of deception; and are equally
responsible to the community for any injury which such men may
inflict. Hence they ought to be extremely careful in allowing this use
to be made of their names, as I cannot believe it to be their wish to
countenance such practices intentionally. I have thus exposed the
fallacy of such a specific for cancer, and in these remarks I am sure
I shall be supported by the whole medical profession.

I may now observe, that with regard to the treatment which I have
adopted in cancers for the last 26 years, I am ready to confess, that
it has often proved ineffectual as to a cure. During that period I
have seen an immense number of cancerous cases, and I candidly avow
that they have frequently disappointed my wishes, and the hopes of the
patients; I, therefore, do not publish