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Chemico-physical Stability and Cancer1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Arthur Eastwood
Arthur Eastwood
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(From the Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry of Health.)
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The prominence recently given to the Rous sarcoma has increased the confusion of hypotheses about malignancy. With a view to clarification, one may say that there are three simple hypotheses of outstanding importance, viz.: (1) the living virus hypothesis, which regards living viruses as the actual and effective cause of both the avian and the mammalian disease; (2) the autogenous enzyme hypothesis, which ascribes both diseases to the development within living cells of an ens malignitatis resembling an enzyme rather than a virus; and (3) the “chronic irritation” hypothesis, which explains mammalian malignancy on this principle and considers fowl sarcoma to be of a different nature.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , July 1929 , pp. 117 - 131
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

References

Page 121 note 1 Lancet, 30. VL 1928, p. 1347.

Page 122 note 1 J. Hygiene, 26, 242 (1927).

Page 122 note 2 J. Hygiene, 25, 405 (1926).

Page 124 note 1 J. Hygiene, 23, 319–20 (1924).

Page 128 note 1 J. Hygiene, 28, 13 (1928).