On artificial tuberculosis, and its relation to cellular pathology and the growth of tumours / by James F. Goodhart.

  • Goodhart, James Frederic, 1845-1916.
Date:
1871
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Credit: On artificial tuberculosis, and its relation to cellular pathology and the growth of tumours / by James F. Goodhart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whether we shall ever be sensible enough as individuals to believe this, and by acting on our belief endeavour to keep dust and smoke and all other abominations from giving us tuberculosis, remains still to be proved. In conclusion, I have thought it advisable to draw out a table which will perhaps aid in explaining more clearly than is done in the text the gist of the whole essay. This is merely as a matter of convenience. By so doing, I do not mean to imply that any scheme, however wide in its extension, is so comprehensive as to embrace all cases occurring in actual practice. On the contrary, while attempting to classify, one of the chief objects of my paper has been also to urge, that we cannot always isolate the diseases of which it has treated, and say this is certainly tubercle and that pneumonia. There will come intervening tracts whose owner- ship is doubtful; and it is by these intermediate links we learn a true pathology. Possibly, some whose opinion I much value may think any attempt at classitication a step in a backward direction ;— let me then remind such that one of the best of our living authors has said, When it once comes to thinking, good-bye to anything like strict agreement amongst men. Until then, all doubtful points have been reduced to matter of fact; and scope is no more left for inquiry, so long is every one who honestly thinks his conclusions based upon sufficient premises entitled to his own opinion. Normal Cell-Growth, or (■ Healthy Nutrition. ^ I Hyperplastic Nutrition, or f Hypertrophies. Simple Tumours. | Inflammation. Epithelioma. - 1 Scirrhus and Encephalomn. Farcy. Farcy. Lymphomata. Suppuration. Tubercle, etc. It now only remains for me to thank the members of the staff at Guy's Hospital, and Drs Ormerod and Butter of Brighton, for hav- ing so kindly placed their cases at my disposal. Without these the paper would have been valueless. EDINBURGH: PRINTED I1V OLIVER AND BOYD.