A treatise, practical and theoretic on cancers and the cancer-process / by Herbert Snow.

Date:
1893
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Credit: A treatise, practical and theoretic on cancers and the cancer-process / by Herbert Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PART I. A GENEEAL DISCUSSION OF CANCER-ETIOLOGY AND PHENOMENA. CHAT. ' PAGE I. Introductory—The Nature of Cancer ; and the Uni- formity OF THE Cancer-Process i II. The Primary Localisation op Cancer and its Subse- quent Generalisation lo III. Causes to which Cancer has been Erroneously Attri- buted : Heredity—The Geological Theory—Supposed Influence of Climate and Food 15 IV. Relation op Cancer to Civilisation — Its Recent Increase 19 V. The Relative Prevalence op Cancer in the Two Sexes— Proclivity op Certain Organs and Comparative Ex- emption OP Others 24 VI. Classification 28 Vll. Causation 31 Vill. Reasons for the Increasing Prevalence op Cancer and FOB Relative Exemption or Proclivity . . • • 37 IX. Rationale op the More Salient Cancer-Phenomena . 43 PART II. PATHOLOGY AND MORBID ANATOMY OF CANCEROUS DISEASES. I. Epithelioma 73 II. Carcinoma 84 III. Sarcoma 116