Remarks on Hodgkin's disease / by the late Sir James Galloway, K.B.E., C.B., M.D., consulting physician to Charing Cross Hospital.
- James Galloway
- Date:
- [1922?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Remarks on Hodgkin's disease / by the late Sir James Galloway, K.B.E., C.B., M.D., consulting physician to Charing Cross Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Reprinted from the British Medical Journal, December 23rd, 1922. HODGKIN’S DISEASE.* BY The late Sir JAMES GALLOWAY, K.B.E., C.B., M.D., CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO CHABING CKOSS HOSPITAL. Enlargement of visible lymphatic glands is a sign of disease quickly noticed by the sufferer and usually a cause of anxiety to him. In many cases it is also a cause of anxiety to the physician. It is true we are often able to reassure the patient —for instance, when it is recognized that the enlargement is due to septic infection within the lymphatic drainage system of the affected glands. Unless too far advanced, the cure of the original infective focus will cause the enlargement of the glands to disappear, in other cases we may be able to discover that the enlargement is due to a chronic infective process, such as tuberculosis, or to the occurrence of new growth, either primary or secondary in character. In such cases there is sufficient cause for alarm, but we have the advantage of understanding something of the nature of these enlargements and the satisfaction of knowing how much can be done and what should be avoided. But there are still other instances in which we are quite ignorant of the cause of the enlargement, but we do know the progressive nature of the disease. The most important example of this class is * Sir James Galloway, whose death on October 18th has been so great a loss to clinical medicine, left behind him notes he had prepared for a post-graduate lecture he was to have delivered before the Fellowship of Medicine and Post-graduate Medical Association on October 11th. They have been put in order by Sir William Hale-White and are here published. It is probable that Sir James Galloway would have made the lecture longer had he survived. [2/23]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30800973_0001.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
