Clinical notes on cancer : its etiology and treatment ; with special reference to the heredity-fallacy, and to the neurotic origin of most cases of alveolar carcinoma / by Herbert L. Snow.

  • Snow, Herbert, 1847-1930.
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1883
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Credit: Clinical notes on cancer : its etiology and treatment ; with special reference to the heredity-fallacy, and to the neurotic origin of most cases of alveolar carcinoma / by Herbert L. Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following pages seek to convey, as briefly a^s possible, the practical experience of several year.-' work among cancerous patients. I have abstained from quoting rare cases which served to inculcate no useful lesson; but, on the other hand, have endeavoured to emphasize those points of clinical importance which seemed to me misconceived or unduly neglected; and, in one especial particular, to point out the fallacy of a widely-prevalent view, which I believe to work much mischief. No attempt has been made at elaborate description or exhaustive investigation; but the impressions re- ceived through constant familiarity with common every-day cases, and the deductions to which they gave rise, are set down without prejudice. How- ever imperfectly this has been done, I trust that the present little work, as a conscientious record of such observations, will not be found altogether useless. 40.. Xoritolk: Terrace, Bayswater. October, 18S3.