A probationary essay on cancer : submitted ...to the examinationof the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by George Johnston ... March 1824.

  • George Johnston
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1824
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    mostly of a gland, ending in a foul ulcer.” * Dr Good, the latest and best of our Nosologists, a “ scirrhus, livid tumour, intersected with firm, whitish, divergent bands, found chiefly in the se¬ cernent glands ; pains acute and lancinating; of¬ ten propagated to ether parts; terminating in a fetid and ichorous ulcer f.” To the former of these it has been objected, that it will apply to many local affections which indubitably are not cancerous; and which, vague as it is, seems framed to correspond merely with the appearance of the disease, when it has its seat in the female . breast. To the latter, the same objections may, perhaps, be properly enough urged, for that part of it which introduces the structure of the tu¬ mour, seems misplaced in a definition, in so far as it cannot be ascertained until the disease has been removed. But such objections are idle. The definitions convey a general idea of the usual ap¬ pearance of Cancer, and the nature of the subject will not admit of any more precise. There has been, and is, some difference of opi¬ nion amongst medical men, concerning the struc¬ tures in which Cancer may originate. That in * Synop. Nos. Method. Cl. iv. Ord. vi. gen. 129, 130. -J- Study of Medicine, vol. ii. p. 802.
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