APPENDIX
D
THE
NAPLES CASE OF EPITHELIOMA OF THE
TONGUE
THE
following is the account I gave of the course of this case—the first to be
cured—in the Medical Record for January 5, 1907: “Add to these a certain
lady (Signora S.) in South Italy (Naples). She had suffered from the torments
of “inoperable” cancer of the tongue since January, 1903. She is the mother of
a large family of children, all living and healthy. Early in March, 1903, the
lady was examined, and cancer of the tongue diagnosed. Operation at first
advised, but afterwards declined, by Dr. Giuseppe Caccioppoli, Professor of
Operative Medicine and of Clinical Surgery in the Regius University of Naples,
Surgeon to the Hospital for Incurables at Loreto; and she was also examined,
and the like diagnosis given, by Dr. Cavaliere Annibale de Giacomo, Professor
of Operative Surgery in the Regius University of Naples. The pancreatic treatment
(injectio trypsini and injectio amylopsini, Fairchild) was
undertaken under the scientific directions given by me from time to time, by
Cavaliere Gennaro Guarracino, Physician and Surgeon to the Provincial hospital
for the Insane of Naples, and to the Hospital of St. Eligio. and by Professor
Michele Manzo, Surgeon to the Pilgrims’ Hospital. In the opinion of these two
latter, the last of the cancer is gone; but she has lost most of her tongue,
which the two eminent surgeons hesitated to try to remove. By the end of
September the last remains
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