A probationary essay on bronchocele : submitted, ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, ... / by Archibald Inglis ... March, 1825.

  • Archibald Inglis
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1825
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Credit: A probationary essay on bronchocele : submitted, ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, ... / by Archibald Inglis ... March, 1825. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / but as these tumours must vary according to the structure in which they take their origin, this appellation included diseases of the most opposite nature and characters, thus giving rise to much confusion. Afterwards, when more minute distinctions were made, from the inde¬ finite nature of the word itself, it was by some applied to tumours of one kind, and by others to those of a different nature; hence it has been used in describing scrofulous, encysted, and even aneurismal tumours. The impropriety of ap¬ plying a term of this nature to diseases equally liable to occur in various other parts of the body being obvious, it is now in a great measure limited to those tumours which are peculiar to the neighbourhood of the trachea, and especially to those enlargements of the thyroid gland, which chiefly occur endemically in certain countries and districts, and to which the name of goitre and other appellations are also given. Whether the disease in all these cases occu¬ pies the thyroid gland itself, or in a proportion of them, as some assert, has its seat in the cellu¬ lar substance adjacent to it, the gland itself re- i
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