A practical essay on cancer : being the substance of observations to which the annual prize for 1808 was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons of London / By Christopher Turner Johnson, surgeon, Exeter : member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, and of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.

  • Johnson, Christopher Turner, 1786?-1811.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A practical essay on cancer : being the substance of observations to which the annual prize for 1808 was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons of London / By Christopher Turner Johnson, surgeon, Exeter : member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, and of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. IN the following sheets, which still retain their original form of a Probationary Essay, it has been the Author's aim to collect and con- centrate into one point of view all the valuable information that is to be found scattered throughout the works of preceding writers on Cancer. Of these he wishes it to be under- stood that he has freely availed himself in col- lecting materials for the present volume. To execute a task, however, of this kind in a pro- per manner, it is requisite that a man should | possess at least such a share of personal expe- ! rience as will qualify him to distinguish between what is truly valuable and important, and what' is not so. Another part of his duty, too, that he is often called upon to perform, is to bal- ance between opposite opinions, and to deter- mine upon them, without paying too much re- gard to the authority of any name, by which they may happen to stand supported. This