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Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ood corpuscles whichmove step by step on the intima. Re-trograde extension through lymphaticsmay take place in the same manner, butis more frequently the result of carcino-matous endolymphangitis. The in-crease of carcinoma is more apparentthan real and heredity is a generallyrecognized predisposing cause. As arule it occurs in elderly persons, but oc-casionally is met with in individuals un-der 25, and then is specially malignant.It seldom follows a single injury, butgenerally follows repeated or prolongedirritation. Among the predisposingcauses must be numerated racial, climat-ic, and topographical influences.Chronic inflammatory products, cica-trices, and benign epithelial tumors arefavorable local conditions. The positiveresults of implantation and inoculation 988 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. experiments have thus far failed in es-tablishing the parasitic theory and acareful study of the experimental re-searches and the bacteriologic and histo-logic investigations do not warrant us
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Cancer of the Breast, after Primary Operation.Case of Dr. I. N. Scott, Kansas City, Mo. at present in claiming a parasitic originfor carcinoma. The experience of cen-turies with medication has demonstratedthat thus far carcinoma is not materiallybettered in this way. Direct medica-tion of carcinomatous tissue by paren-chymatous injections has no influence,while the injection of sclerogenic sub-stances into the surrounding connectivetissue appears to restrain the local ex-tension by impairing the blood supply.Local applications of any kind for ulcer-ative carcinoma can be only palliativeat best. The actual cautery and chem-ical caustics have only a limited field ofusefulness in open inoperable carcinomaand should never be used in treatmentof closed carcinoma in place of theknife. The serum treatment has yieldedonly negative results. The early andradical operative treatment offers theonly prospect for permanently eliminat-ing the disease, which can be deter-mined only after a lapse of 1

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