Transmission of Cancer.
A case of the transmission of cancer by inoculation is now (says the correspondent ot the Age) attracting the attention of the medical fraternity, the victim of the inoculation being a member of tneir profession. Sometime ago Dr Barnett, of New York, had ft patient, a woman, who came to him with a tumour at the base of the tongue. He examined the tumour carefully, and while doing so caused it to bleed, the blood touching his finger, on which there was a small abrasion. He paid no attention to the mat ter, as he diagnosed ibe tumour as nothing but an ordinary swelling, A month or more after the first visit the woman came again to Dr Barnett, and by this time the condition of the tumour showed it to be a cancer, and not the harmless swelling that he had at first supposed it to be. Later a cancerous growth appeared in the doctor's throat, and it had been growing steadily worse as time rolls on. His recovery is now considered hopeless in spite of bis receiving the best medical treatment that his professional associates are able to give him. A good many doctors are sceptical about the transmission of cancer by inoculation, and some of them declare that Dr Barnett's case is nothing more than a coincidence.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 116, 14 November 1895, Page 3
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