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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 93 of 653Cancer of the Breasts.Next to the uterus the mammae are most frequently attacked bycancer. Cancer of the mammae is most commonly of a primarynature, hence the beginning of the cancerous disease.The causes of this disease can scarcely ever be determined withcertainty. If a blow or a contusion is generally regarded as thecause of this disease, it is probably because no better cause canfound, not because the disease has ever been known to result immediately from such an injury. The influence of depressing emotions which are so easily und so commonly succeeded by cancerousdegenerations, is a much more evident source of the cancerousCarcinoma Mammae. 101disease. Cancer of the rnammse most commonly occurs betweenthe ages of 40 and 50, about the period which is generally designated as a change of life. Unmarried women or women whohave not had children seem to be more liable to it than marriedwomen with children. Before and after this period, it is proportionally a rare occurrence.The most frequently observed form of carcinoma of the mammaeis scirrhus, next to w^hich we range the encephaloid or medullaryfungus, the alveolar or colloid cancer and the epithelial cancerepithelioma.[Mr. Maurice H. CoUis of Dublin, in his work "The Diagnosisand Treatment of Cancer, and the Tumors analogous to it" 1864,has thrown out epithelioma and colloid growths from the truecancer-group. He regards Colloid as a mere variety of fibroid orrecurrent tumors. Virchow says that " its stroma differs in its ctaining mucus and in its gelatinous nature from the ordinarystroma of cancer," page 526, On Tumors. Mr. Collis says, in rejecting epithelioma from the group of cancerous tumors: "Its superficial origin, its slow progress, its indisposition to infiltrdeeper structures, or to contaminate the glands, the certainty ofcure which follows its timely removal, and the difterent appearanwhen occupying similar localities, are of suflicient importance toutweigh the points of resemblance which it undoubtedly bears tocancer in its advanced and secondary stages. In its early stage iis strictly an hypertrophy, and in this condition it may remain fan indefinite period. Its second stage is one of hypertrophy andulceration combined. This stage also, as far as external or cutaneous epithelioma is concerned, is slow to advance into the thirdor destructive stage, that of infiltration and secondary deposit,page 226. Speaking of Colloid, Virchow writes: "It remains for avery long time local, so that the nearest lymphatic glands oftennot become affected until after the lapse of years, and then agaithe process is for a long time confined to the disease of thelymphatic glands, so that a general outbreak of the disease in alparts of the body does not take place until late, and only in rarinstances." (See his work on Tumors, page 581.) H.]The commencement of the disease is scarcely ever marked bypeculiar morbid phenomena ; the patients generally do not noticehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt