The term "disease" is discussed with reference to the issues raised by Ian Kennedy in his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics and the definition proposed by Campbell, Scadding, and Roberts. Toon suggests a revised set of definitions based on a distinction between "diseasedness", the opposite of health, and the disease categories used in medicine to distinguish conditions needing specific tre...

In a collection of 11 cases, the benign lymphoepithelial lesion presented clinically in every case as a tumour of a salivary gland. In eight cases the parotid was affected, in two a palatal salivary gland, and in one the submandibular gland was affected. Microscopically the lesion consisted of a mixture of lymphoid and epithelial components and, although the appearances in several cases suggest...