[Experimental work on the aetiology and diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease]

Abstract

This thesis represents a record of investigations carried out by the cendidete in the University Department of Bacteriology during his tenure of appointment as University Assistant.it consists mainly of his own experimental findings and no attempt has been made to summarise or abstract the views of other writers. Current literature contains many excellent summaries of previous work published on this subject and reference is being made to these. Although such reports furnish complete accounts of the historical, clinical and pathological aspects of lympha.denoma yet very little indeed is known about Thomas Hodgkin himself.Few realise that he was a distinguished graduate of Edinburgh University, a member of the Royal Medical Society, an able classical scholar end a. philologist. Furthermore, that he was responsible for having founded the Pathological Museum in Guy's Hospital Medical School and described a variety of different morbid conditions other than that which perpetuates his name. Lack of interest in his work is evidenced by the fact that during a survey of the original literature, the writer encountered an article by Samuel Wilks on the life of Thorns Hodgkin that had been published in 1877 and the pages of which had been unopened for the last -57 years during which it had lain in the University library.The candidate has therefore decided to precede his account of experimental work on the aetiology and diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease with a. few remarks on the life of Thomas Hodgkin the morbid anatomist, and some early accounts of Hodgkin's disease.