The significance of the zoological distribution, the nature of the mitoses, and the transmittability of cancer / by E.F. Bashford and J.A. Murray.
- Bashford, E. F. (Ernest Francis), 1873-
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The significance of the zoological distribution, the nature of the mitoses, and the transmittability of cancer / by E.F. Bashford and J.A. Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ The Significance of the Zoological Distribution, the Nature of the Mitoses, and the Transmissibility of Cancer.” By E. F. Bashford, M.D., and J. A. Murray, M.B., B.Sc. Communi¬ cated by Professor J. Rose Bradford, F.R.S. Received January 12,—Read January 21, 1904. [Plate 2.] The object of this communication is to relate some results of the work conducted under the immediate direction of the Executive Committee of the Cancer Research Fund during the past year. We believe that these results will convince others of the important practical assistance which biologists generally can give in the further elucidation of certain problems of cancer which must be settled before preventive and curative measures can be devised. It will also be made evident that the elucidation of cancer is something more than a problem of human pathology. We shall adduce evidence tending to show that the wide zoological distribution, the character of the mitoses, and the transmissibility of cancer, are nearly related phenomena with a common basis. The fundamental significance of ascertaining the extent of the zoological distribution of cancer was recognised by the Cancer Research Fund from the first, and determined the prosecution of definite lines of inquiry, not only with the object of eliciting new facts in regard to the zoological distribution itself, but also with the object of dis¬ covering cancer in animals well adapted to cytological and experi mental observations. Zoological Distribution. Within the past year specimens of malignant new growths have accumulated from all the domesticated animals and from many other b](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30604904_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
