On the operative surgery of malignant disease / by Henry T. Butlin.

Date:
1887
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Credit: On the operative surgery of malignant disease / by Henry T. Butlin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OPEEATIYE SUBGEEY OF MALIGNANT DISEASE. CHAPTER I. INTIIODUCTIOW. In the following pages I have tried to give as clear and precise an account as possible of the present relations which operative surgery bears to malignant disease. For a long time past I have felt that this work of review ought to be undertaken. First, because I am sure that the good results of operations for nialignant disease have been underrated in some quarters; second, because I feel equally sure that there has been a tendency to carry operative surgery to an unjustifiable length in other quarters. It is therefore of the highest importance that we should be in possession of as complete information as we can obtain of the results of operations for malignant disease; and that we should make some attempt to formulate our practice in accordance with this information. The reasons which have led me personally to undertake so large and difficult a task are the great interest which 1 have for many years taken in the subject of malignant disease, the material which was already in my possession, and the know- ledge of the sources from which, much more material might be derived. I have undertaken it with a full appreciation of its difficulty and importance, and am quite aware how distressingly it falls short in many respects of what it ought to be. This is, of course, in part ray own fault; but it is not wholly my fault, ior there is a great lack of the information which is necessary li