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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    I cannot better establish the position I set out with, “ that, from the imperfect state of the knowledge of the cancerous disease, and from the confused opinions about it, other ulcerations have been mistaken for or con- founded with it,” than by quoting the very words of Dr. Hamilton, in his “ Observations on Scrophulous Affections; with Remarks on Scirrhus, Cancers, &c.” “ From the foregoing remarks, it seems to appear (says the Doctor) that scirrhous and cancer are consequences of a scrophulous habit. It has already been observed, that scirrhous frequently happens to a strumous gland, and that it seems to be the other of its terminations when the gland does neither dissolve and discuss, nor suppurate, and that cancer is known to succeed scirrhous; there- fore those morbid states of the lymphatic glandular system, from those circumstances, seem to be only varieties in gradation from one to the other, in particular constitutions of some scrophulous subjects, although they appear to take on, in succession, new forms.