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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    are more subject to be attacked by cancerous complaints; and the case occurs so fre- quently, that we have no need to have re- course to the slow and secret action of a supposed f cancerous leaven’ for an expla- nation.” In addition to the above remarks, this case may be questioned, if not wholly rejected, as cancerous, on other grounds. The abscess produced some time after the contusion on the hip, would seem strongly to support the opinion that all the appearances from the be- ginning, rested upon a scrophulous habit*; and, indeed, this opinion is still more strength- ened, when it is recollected, how familiar it was, some time back, to blend the two ac- tions, by supposing cancer to be a modifica- tion of scrophula. * From the description of the breast, it certainly ap- pears to have been a scrophulous enlargement j and the ulcers that took place at the age of three years, were most likely a species of nomse, that sometimes attack the cheeks of girls.