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Laboratory Studies, Vol. XXI, and Clinical Studies, Vol. XII, from the Memorial Hospital, New York, 1935.

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This is not a book in the usually accepted sense of the word, but a collection of no less than forty papers bearing directly or indirectly on the cancer problem. Even to name more than a few of them is, in a brief review, impossible. There are two papers, by Ewing, which certainly repay reading: "The General Pathological Conception of Cancer"; and "Modern Attitude towards Traumatic Cancer." In the former paper, Ewing argues at great length against the parasitic theory of cancer causation. He intimates that the wish is father of the thought, in that proof of parasitic origin might result in the speedy discovery of a cure; whereas a belief that malignant growth depends, like normal growth, upon inherent properties of the cell, and that there is no such thing as cancer, but only cancers, must carry with it the conviction that a specific remedy is scarcely to be hoped for, and that work on the lines which led Ehrlich to the discovery of his famous 606 is destined never to bear fruit.