Diet In Cancerfirst Paper: Full Text Of Nine Cases
Albany Medical Annals 8: July 1887; 218-230
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Personal Characteristics
Middle-aged mother of a large family, history of cancer in the family (father - stomach cancer, maternal grandmother - breast cancer)
Clinical Characteristics
Cardiac hypertrophy, insufficiency of the left auriculoventricular valve, severe attacks of angina pectoris, retroversion, engorgement, hardening, eversion of the os uteri, four small, hard, marble-like tumors behind the uterus, severe pain in the pelvis, profuse vaginal discharge, menorrhagia, loss of appetite, loss of flesh and strength, nausea, cold and sweaty legs up to the knees, stomach distress, constipation, nervous restlessness, high colored and rank smelling urine
Remission Characteristics
Heart normal in size, valvular insufficiency hardly perceivable, angina pectoris gone, uterine disease relieved, tumors disappeared, uterus mobile, discharges normal, urine clear, restoration to active duties
Treatment & Mechanisms
Proposed Remission Mechanisms
Dietary changes, specifically the consumption of tenderloin steak, broiled and cut up very fine, fed every four hours
Clinical Treatment
General and local treatment
Non-Clinical Treatment
Dietary changes, good nursing
Additional Notes
Patient was fed against her appetite, the quantity of meat was increased gradually over two months. The patient was also moved to the seashore where she began to get an appetite. No medicine was given after the food treatment, save Hoffmans anodyne when she had palpitation of the heart and suffocation of breath.