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. 1958 Apr;2(2):114–119. doi: 10.1017/s0025727300023528
HISTORICAL NOTES ON CANCER*
Erwin H Ackerknecht
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Erwin H Ackerknecht, M.D.
1Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Zürich
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The only more substantial essay on the history of cancer in English is to be found in J. Ewing, Neoplastic Diseases, Philadelphia, 1928. In German is available the treatise by Jacob Wolff, Die Lehre von der Krebskrankheit von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart, 4 vols., Jena, 1907–28.
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