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The
last photographs were taken on October 15, 1910.
From
the copies of the ten charts of this case kindly given me by Captain Lambelle,
I take the following notes:
“Treatment began, March 8, 1909; stopped, September 17,
1909; recommenced, January 14, 1910; finally stopped, March 24, 1910; 120
injections in all given. August 9, 1909, small slough removed from floor of
orbit. August 12, 1909, a large slough removed from the mouth from situation of
tuberosity of maxilla. August 24, 1909, mouth now clear of sloughs, is quite
clean, and healing rapidly. On October 28, 1909, plastic operation to close
small aperture in face.” Captain Lambelle last wrote to the writer regarding
this case under date November 23, 1910: “I saw du T. on Saturday morning last
[November19], alive and well—’ Never better in his life,’ he said—for he had
come to bid me good-bye on my leaving the hospital at York.” In view of the
publication of this book, the writer wrote to the patient referred to above,
under date September ii, 1911. The reply came with the date September 14, 1911,
from the patient himself, and on this date he was alive, well, and not suffering
from sarcoma of the jaw. The six photographic illustrations (Figs. 6 to 11)
relate to this case.
Captain
Lambelle’s success in three out of his four cases to date was due, in my
opinion, not at all to any help of mine, for as a fact I knew nothing of his
cases until the treatment in each had done its work, but to the circumstance
that he had studied the matter theoretically and practically. He knew from his
own observations on my material, as well as from the study of my scientific
memoirs, all about “the irresponsible trophoblast.” Unlike Bainbridge, it never
occurred to him to say: “The irresponsible trophoblast does not concern us
here.”