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.

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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    peculiar infectious quality to its character. Might not Tulpius have an “ ulcerated “ throat/’ although he was attending a can- cerous sore ? Did the ulcers of the throat prove to be cancerous ? No. Where is the proof that it was the “ cancerous halitus” that produced the “ remarkable depression of “ strength Vr I believe the explanation to be this: that Tulpius, alarmed at the state of his throat, attributed, in the hurry of the moment, an effect to a cancerous cause, which more pro- bably originated in a severe cold : but, how- ever, admitting all that he suffered to have arisen from the cancerous exhalation, it proves nothing with regard to the question of specific infection. The exposure to a pu- trid dead body might have produced precisely the same effects. The case of Mr. Smith, one of the sur- geons of St. Thomas’s hospital, which made considerable noise at the time, appears to have been just as little to the purpose as that of Tulpius. No rational conclusion what- ever was drawn from it; it was,accommodat-