Cancer of the rectum : its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including a portion of the Jacksonian prize essay for 1876 / by W. Harrison Cripps.

  • Cripps, Harrison (William Harrison), 1850-1923.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Cancer of the rectum : its pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, including a portion of the Jacksonian prize essay for 1876 / by W. Harrison Cripps. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION There is no reason for supposing that cancer when situated in the rectum differs essentially in its nature from the same disease in other parts of the body. It may be well, therefore, to take a brief glance at the general nature of the disease. So much ambiguity has arisen, as to the meaning of the word cancer that it may be well to define the sense in which the term is used in this essay. The modern school of pathologists limit the term to express a group of tumours presenting certain definite structures under the microscope. In this group are included scir- rhous, medullary, colloid, and epithelial growths, but the various forms of sarcoma are excluded. The older surgeons, on the other hand, con-