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Excerpt from Cure of a True Cancer of the Female Breast With Mesmerism
The sudden removal of a diseased mass is a very simple affair, and the production of the state of insensibility in the mesmeric state is one of the most common phenomena presented tothe physiologist. But the removal of a diseased growth, a malignant tumor, not sud denly with the knife of the surgeon, but with the aid of mesmerism, so acting on the inherent powers of the constitution as to produce a steady and progressive absorption, -this is a phenomenon which has not been witnessed on any former occasion, and certainly demands the most serious consideration of the medical professmn. Can any surgeon refer to a single example of tumor of the breast like the one under consideration, which steadily progressed, either with or without medicine, toward a perfect cure? Here was a tumor, care fully examined and unanimously doomed to extirpation by several practical surgeons, and the fact of their doing so, clearly proved that they knew of no other plan by Which the diseased mass could be removed. Nevertheless this tumor underwent such changes, day after day, and month after month, just in the proportion that the efforts of the mesmeriser were continued, and finally, became ab sorbed, - and not only so, but the constitutional symptoms, which were of an aggravated character, yielded, -the darting pains ceased, sleep returned, the sallow complexion vanished, the swollen arm returned to a natural size, and the situation of the patient became in every respect more and more satisfactory.' On one occasion.
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