Reference number | AP/71/11 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'An attempt to cultivate parasitic protozoa from malignant tumours, Vaccinia, Molluscum Contagiosum, and certain normal tissues, together with infection experiments carried out with the culture media, and a note on the treatment of cancer' by Samuel George Shattock and Charles A [Alfred] Ballance |
Creator | Ballance; Charles Alfred (1856-1936); English surgeon |
Date | 1895 |
Description | In a previous communication the authors showed that no organism belonging to the protophyta could be cultivated from malignant new growths, and in addition that carcinomatous and sarcomatous tumours from the hum an subject could not be transplanted so as to produce infection in the low er animals. The communicate the methods and results of their experiments into cultivating parasitic protozoa from malignant tumours. The result of these experiments is negative: No traces of protozoic life, whether as spores or amoebae, are encountered.
Annotations in ink throughout.
Subject: Physiology / Pathology
Received 25 March 1895. Read 2 May 1895. Communicated by Sir James Paget.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 58 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'An attempt to cultivate parasitic protozoa from malignant tumours, vaccinia, molluscum contagiosum, and certain normal tissues, together with infection experiments carried out with the culture media, and a note on the treatment of cancer'. |
Extent | 73p |
Format | Typescript |
Physical description | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1895.0046 |
Related records in the catalogue | RR/12/392 |
RR/12/393 |
RR/12/394 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA1456 | Shattock; Samuel George (1852 - 1924) | 1852 - 1924 |
NA6051 | Paget; Sir; James (1814 - 1899) | 1814 - 1899 |