The distribution and duration of visceral new growths : being the Bradshawe Lecture delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on August 19, 1889 / by Norman Moore.

  • Moore Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The distribution and duration of visceral new growths : being the Bradshawe Lecture delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on August 19, 1889 / by Norman 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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    Middle Ages were inclined to neglect observa- tion, but they excelled in definition to such a degree that a reader who goes no further than the first paragraph of their statements on each disease will be inclined to think too well of their knowledge. Dr. John of Gaddesden was the most famous of English physicians before the foundation of this College, and his de- finition of cancer is : Cancer est morbus maleficus, tumorem faciens cum duricie, vel ulcerationes faciens cum dolore et fetore et horribilitate.* But his further remarks show that in his time cancer was not exactly dis- tinguished from other forms of tumour, of induration of tissues, and of ulceration. This defect continued for more than four centuries after the time of John of Gaddesden, though a vast collection of observations of new growths of all kinds was made by physicians throughout Europe in consequence of the active study of the morbid anatomy of the human body in its * Rosa Anglica, Venice, 1516, pj). 125, 126.