Account of a Growth of Cartilage in a Testicle and its Lymphatics, and in other Parts

Despite Outpatient Data on Patterns of Drinking Alcohol, Budd's 1855 Monograph on the Stomach Failed to Recognize the Potentiality of Prevention

“…This is a word defined in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary as "sober [8]." Sober habits were described mildly in terms of the patient being "temperate" by Paget [9] himself. While Seymour [10] qualified a man as being "remarkably temperate in his habits," Cooper [11] promoted a woman who was "temperate in her habits."…”

The Plant Kingdom Featured Significantly in the History of Cancer

“…Mentioned on the smaller size was the oat [51], while Legg [52] opted for the size variation "from a mustard seed to a small apple. " On the part of the eponymous giant, James Paget [53], note his vivid description: "The tumour growth was branched, like a stunted, leafless shrub, about two-thirds of an inch high. " Billroth [4] also noted branching, while Lack [54] painted the picture of an array of postoperative stitch site tumors "varying in size from a pea to a cherry stone. "…”

Prevention of Gloom among Cancer Patients: A Historical Review

“…Consider, for instance, the ordinary issue of examining ill patients. Even the seemingly ordinary practice of applying the stethoscope on the chest, i.e., auscultation, was not persisted with because the patient's "feebleness prevented his being accurately auscultated" [45]. And so it was in another patient "in consequence of the tenderness of the surface of the chest" [46].…”