Cancer : its treatment by modern methods : being the Bradshaw lecture for 1906 which was delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on December 12, 1906 / by Edmund Owen.

  • Edmund Blackett Owen
Date:
1907
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Credit: Cancer : its treatment by modern methods : being the Bradshaw lecture for 1906 which was delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on December 12, 1906 / by Edmund Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    are for ever telling us that the chief part of our illnesses are brought on by our own misdeeds, and especially by even a moderate indulgence in what they are pleased to call ‘ alco- holic beverages,’ it is something of a comfort to find that the trout and the carp, undoubted water-drinkers, are, with the rest of us, liable to cancer. And if so be that the record of this consoling fact be read by any of those either inside or outside our Profession who take their recreation with rod or gun, I would beg that if at any time they meet with an animal marked by some strange growth or diseased patch, whether the animal be clothed in feather, fur, or scale, they send it forthwith to the Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund on the Victoria Embankment, where, I can promise, it will be cordially welcomed and carefully examined. Such specimens may prove of the utmost value to those engaged upon the great cancer problem, and by giving them- selves this little trouble the senders will be materially helping our patient workers, as well as showing sympathy with their work. And here I would express the grateful acknowledgment of the Executive Committee of the Fund for the favourable response which their deputation received a few months ago from the Postmaster-General to their request that specimens, if securely packed, might still be sent through the post to the Director of the Laboratories. Taking advantage of these postal facilities, the head-keeper of the Duke of Rutland recently sent to the Laboratories an old cock grouse who was found to have a cancer of the bowel; and Mr. Goodall and Mr. Cousens, Fellows of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, have forwarded, respectively, a blackbird with cancer of the liver and a canary with cancer of the ovary. All these specimens were of great interest, and more like them are desired. It is strange that at present the mouse is wellnigh the only animal in which cancer can be obtained by grafting; that cancer-grafts from a mouse will not grow continuously in other animals, even in one so closely allied as the rat; and that the graft is so particular that it will take root only in mice of the same species. A graft from a tame mouse
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