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injections.
From time to time information as to the procedure employed by Captain Lambelle
was furnished for use in this case. Beginning November 11, 1908, the injections
of trypsin and amylopsin were continued until August 18, 1909, and they were
then stopped, not having been resumed since. In this period there were injected
at least 63,000 tryptic units and 94,000 amylolytic ones. This amount is
similar to that used in the case of the York pensioned soldier, and it much
exceeds the total employed at the Middlesex Hospital, not in one, but in nine
cases. Under the date August 5, 1910, there came the intimation, from a
friend who had just visited him, that the patient was still alive, and that on
the above date it was “now exactly two years and one week since the abdominal
incision was made, and the case pronounced by Mr. Battle as one of inoperable
carcinoma of the stomach.” Looking back over the history of this case, I feel
bound to say, that while the numbers of units of trypsin and of amylopsin were
such as might be considered adequate, the administration of the amount was
spread over far too great an interval of time (nine months).
-The above opinion was written in August,
1910. Soon afterwards the patient developed a more extensive albuminuria, which
had troubled him for some little time. He died about the end of September,
1910. Another physician called in diagnosed” Bright’s disease,” which was the
scientific opinion I had formed independently, but on his return home his own
physician declared the mischief to be cancer. There was, so I understand, no
post-mortem, the symptoms in the latter months were not those usually
associated with cancer of the stomach and liver, but of Bright’s disease. It is
now an old opinion of the writer’s, frequently stated to