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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    course of the femoral artery, so that there would seem to be a specific excitement in morbid alterations,, to stimulate the vessels of neighbouring parts into similar acquired actions; and, in this way, it would appear obvious that the progress of the cancerous sore is effected by circle after circle, taking on the same disposition from previously al- tered structures. The offensive smell of cancerous sores would appear to have been much exagge- rated. Undoubtedly where there is an ex- tensive sloughing of animal matter going on, an offensive effluvium must arise ; but this is certainly neither so common nor so exten- sive in cancers as would seem to have been considered. I have not been so much an- noyed by ten cases together^ in a cancer ward, as where there has been only one ex- tensive gangrene going on. Indeed a can- cerous surface does not, at any time, afford the quantity of matter which a common ulcer would, of the same extent. The secretion is frequently spare, a thin ichor being more