Annals of surgery . TOTAL EXCISION OF THE LOWER JAW FORMALIGNANT By CHARLES B. NANCREDE, OF \\\ OF SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY 01 MICHIGAN. WHEN considering the advisability of a given operation, thefirst question demanding an answer is, does the operationcontemplate the cure or only the palliation of the dis-ease ; and secondly, in the latter event, is the knife especiallydangerous to life ? If the primary disease for which we are usually called uponto remove the lower jaw were of an epitheliomatous nature, viz.,truly carcinomatous, I might feel it incumbent upon
Annals of surgery . TOTAL EXCISION OF THE LOWER JAW FORMALIGNANT By CHARLES B. NANCREDE, OF \\\ OF SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSITY 01 MICHIGAN. WHEN considering the advisability of a given operation, thefirst question demanding an answer is, does the operationcontemplate the cure or only the palliation of the dis-ease ; and secondly, in the latter event, is the knife especiallydangerous to life ? If the primary disease for which we are usually called uponto remove the lower jaw were of an epitheliomatous nature, viz.,truly carcinomatous, I might feel it incumbent upon me to elabo-rately demonstrate the local origin of carcinoma, for there area very few who still believe this disease to be of constitutionalorigin, utterly ignoring all experience, pathology and analog}-,when properly interpreted. Here and there a young man, desir-ing to attract attention, hopes to become notorious by taking theopposition side at the cost of retrograding in science, or, at best,remaining stationary
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