Excerpt from On Atrophy of the Stomach: And on the Nervous Affections of the Digestive Organs I perhaps ought to apologise for introducing the Speculations concerning cancer in Chapter IV into a work Of a practical character, but they seemed to arise naturally out Of the subject under discussion. Modern inquirers appear to me to have erred in regarding malignant tumours SO entirely from a microscopical point of view, for it concerns us rather to know why than how a morbid structure grows, and no amount Of investigation into the size and shape Of the cells Of which it is composed is likely to afford us this information. After a con siderable expenditure of time and labour, and having examined with the microscope the digestive canal in about eighty persons who had died Of cancer, I was obliged to abandon the hope of discovering the indirect cause Of the local disease in an alteration of the digestive process. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.