An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London.

  • Young, Samuel.
Date:
1805
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    glands which carry on the various secretions of the body; and that the disease is so un- common to the lymphatic system,, that it is doubted whether a primary cancerous affec- tion of a lymphatic gland can ever take place : so that, as far as general observation goes, the cancerous disease would appear excluded from the lymphatic system, whilst scrophula, on the contrary, seems exclusively attached to it *. The notion therefore of the two diseases being modifications of one another, must be wholly erroneous, although a secreting gland in a scrophulous constitution may be more open to the cancerous influence, simply upon the ground that the energies of life, in all such instances, are considerably more de- ficient, and that all complicated parts must therefore be more open to derangement. * A lymphatic gland, perhaps, is that kind of simple body which admits of no mediate morbid alteration be- tween direct excitement, and the specific debility evinced in scrophulous action.