Treatment of cancer and allied diseases.
✦ LIBER ✦
Sclerosing Therapy. The Injection Treatment of Hernia, Hydrocele, Varicose Veins and Hæmorrhoids. Edited By Frank C. Yeomans, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Proctology and Attending Surgeon, New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. 10 × 7 in. pp. 337 + xii, with 117 illustrations. 1939. London: Ballière, Tindall & Cox. 27s. net
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1940
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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✦ Synopsis
22s. 6d. net. THE author of this book has made himself conversant with the vast array of cases reported in the medical literature of the United States and Germany which have a medico-legal bearing on this very vexed question of the relationship of injury to new growth. As he practices in America (Pittsburgh Hospital) and has taken a medical degree in Berlin, he has become personally familiar with the scientific and legal opinions of these two countries. He mentions that between the years 1882 and 1897 there appeared over three thousand books and papers on the subject, of which the majority were in German. And yet this subject seems more doubtful and debatable than ever ! So long as we know neither the exact nature of a malignant growth nor its cause, it is impossible to do more than conjecture as to its origin.
As years go by, however, there is an ever accumulating number of cases in which the Law Courts hold that injury has been the direct or indirect cause of cancer. In order to establish a probability of this relationship four postulates should be established-namely :
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