On cancer, as illustrated in ichthyosis of the tongue and allied diseases resulting from prolonged local irritation / by James F. Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, James Frederic, 1845-1916.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Credit: On cancer, as illustrated in ichthyosis of the tongue and allied diseases resulting from prolonged local irritation / by James F. Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON CANCER, AS ILIUSTBATED IN ICHTHYOSIS OF THE TONGUE AND ALLIED DISEASES RESULTING FROM PROLONGED LOCAL IRRITATION. By JAMES E. GOODHART, M.D. It may seem unnecessary, nay even prejudicial, to add to an already overstocked literature of new growths by enume- rating individual opinions of a hypothetical nature as to the origin of tumours. This seeming unadvisability will not be diminished when we reflect upon the extreme complexity of the subject and that this complexity necessitates the consideration of such a multiplicity of details that it becomes almost impos- sible to give the requisite attention or, indeed, any at all to some points, and therefore to take estimate of all facts that bear upon the case. It is difficult to place oneself in that attitude of thought which shall allow amplitude enough to embrace all the contin- gencies upon which in any individual case “ malignancy ” depends. Yet if this be not done no adequate conception of cancer, using that term to signify all infiltrating growths, can be formed. The prolonged debate on cancer during the last session of the Pathological Society was an apt illustration of this. Two contending armies came on to the field, the constitutionalists and the localists, each apparently prepared to fight out for convictions which admitted of no compromise. But as speaker