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CATAPHORIC TREATMENT OF CANCER.

G. BETTON MASSEY, M.D.
JAMA. 1899;XXXIII(11):626-629. doi:10.1001/jama.1899.92450630002001a.
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The insertion of nascent salts of mercury within the human body by electric diffusion in a strength that will deluge a given tract of tissue or a growth with these germicides without materially affecting the remainder of the body constitutes a novel therapeutic procedure which the writer contributed to medical science as a cure for cancer, in a paper before this Section of the Association at its Philadelphia meeting, in 1897. Further experience with this method in primary cancers and local recurrences in accessible situations has demonstrated an even greater usefulness than was anticipated, as the technic has improved and greater currents have been used.

The importance of this method of destroying germs within the body would be sufficiently great if its applicability to the cure of local cancerous foci is alone considered, for cancerous affections are increasing rapidly in frequency throughout the country, but an examination of the method

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