An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young.

Date:
1805
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and action of cancer : with a view to the establishment of a regular mode of curing that disease by natural separation / by Samuel Young. 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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    ON CANCER. CHAPTER I. GENERAL STATE OF THE QUESTION. To no disease, perhaps, were ever attributed so great varieties of natures, which at the same time appear to be independently direct and self-evident, as to that of cancer ; and, possibly, opinions on such various and direct natures never appeared, in any other dis- ease, to be so indirectly, so indefinitely, sup- ported In one instance it is asserted, that the matter of this disease is specific; in another, that its action is constitutional; in a third, it ,s sPoken of as hereditary; a fourth consi- li