First annual report of the Cancer Committee to the Surgical Department of the Harvard Medical School, October, 1900.

  • Harvard University. Cancer Commission.
Date:
1900
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Credit: First annual report of the Cancer Committee to the Surgical Department of the Harvard Medical School, October, 1900. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Thanks to the generous aid of numerous friends who appreciate the importance of work of this character, and to the resources of a great university, we are enabled to plan these studies on a scale which it is hoped may constitute something of value towards the solution of so difficult a problem, and may stimulate others to take a renewed interest in the subject. The work of the various men forming the commission and presented in this report speaks for itself. The Surgical Department acknowledges, with much appreciation, the assistance of the State Board of Health, for whom Dr. W. F. Whitney is at present studying the geographical distribution of cancer throughout the State of Massachusetts. It is also proper to state in this connection that Dr. J. D. Weis has been appointed to the Austin Fellowship in Surgical Pathol- ogy, and is at present in Europe, with a view of studying the nature of the blastomycetes, an organism whose name has been so much associated recently with the studies on this disease. The presentation of this report emphasizes the policy of this department in devoting its energies, not only to the teaching of surgery, but to original research in some of the many inviting fields which are offered to well-trained and well-organized bands of scientific investigators.