Rodent cancer : with photographic and other illustrations of its nature and treatment / by Charles H. Moore.

Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rodent cancer : with photographic and other illustrations of its nature and treatment / by Charles H. Moore. 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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    / ^ t p \ PREFACE. The very gratifying favour accorded to my endeavours to throw light on the nature of Cancer, encourages me to publish further observations upon the subject. There are various elements constituting that disease, which are not all present in each particular example of it. In the extensive ulcerations of the face which are distinguished by the graphic epithet Rodent, I think that I recognise a Cancer devoid of every one of the characters which make up our ideal of a cancerous disease, except such as are purely local. These great and disfiguring maladies, a combination of growth and ulcer, possess all the essential qualities of an ordinary scirrhus, without any or with very little of the faculty for dissemination in the body