Observations on fungus hæmatodes or soft cancer, in several of the most important organs of the human body : containing also a comparative view of the structure of fungus hæmatodes and cancer. With cases and dissections / by James Wardrop.

Date:
1809
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Credit: Observations on fungus hæmatodes or soft cancer, in several of the most important organs of the human body : containing also a comparative view of the structure of fungus hæmatodes and cancer. With cases and dissections / by James Wardrop. 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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    The disease has also been called by some authors, and in some schools of surgery, soft cancer. Though the observations of these respec- table authors have, no doubt, contributed to draw the attention of pathologists to this very interesting subject, yet they have left much to be done, and they may only be considered as having paved the way for future inquirers. None of these authors seems to have compared his observations with those of the others ; each has affixed a different name to the disease which he has described ; and this multiplicity of names has proved a very considerable barrier to the advancement of our investigations. Mr Hey, indeed, I much suspect, has described,, under the name of fungus haematodes, cases of disease which are not analogous to one another; and since his publication, the term has been applied by many to all those dis- eases which were not cancerous, but which had some resemblance to it, from their for- midable appearance and fatal effects.