Historical appreciation of The Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Society’s meeting on melanoma metastases

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In 1889, the famous German Pathologist, Julius Cohnheim, postulated that the findings from tumor autopsy are explicable on natural principles. Within the next decade, members of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Society with Dr. Flexner in the Chair dealt with a case that demonstrated the above dictum of Cohnheim. It is proposed here to appreciate historically what happened at the Meeting of February 3, 1896. It covers the early knowledge of metastatic melanoma.

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volume 1  issue None

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