An essay on the origin and nature of tuberculosis and cancerous diseases. Read to the Medical Section of the British Association, on the 23rd of August, 1836 / [Richard Carmichael].

  • Richard Carmichael
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1836
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Credit: An essay on the origin and nature of tuberculosis and cancerous diseases. Read to the Medical Section of the British Association, on the 23rd of August, 1836 / [Richard Carmichael]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The only other objection that was urged against the parasitical nature of tubercles was by Doctor Houston; who said, that as I alluded to the post mortem appearances of an axis deer, which he had communicated to the Association at a former meet¬ ing, he was induced to state his dissent from my conclusion, that because the animal had hy¬ datids in its abdomen and tubercles in its lungs, I had reason to infer that the latter, like the former, were parasitic beings; that he, on the contrary, considered the tubercles, in this animal, to be the consequence of inflammation. To this observation I merely replied, that I placed more reliance on his facts than on his opinions, and that I would leave others to judge whether his or mine on this point (as detailed in p. 44) were most to be relied upon. Doctor Symonds then objected to the manner in which the views of Doctor Carswell, Clarke, and others had been stated, respecting the identity of scrofula and tuberculous disease, and denied that they supported this identity. To this objection, I merely replied by refer¬ ring to the passages from their respective works, as quoted in pp. 9 and 10 of this paper, which prove decidedly that I had not dealt unfairly with them, or misrepresented their opinions. THE END.
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