THREE LECTURES on CANCER of the SCROTUM in CHIMNEY-SWEEPS and OTHERS: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Abstract

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,-Several years ago, in the ,course of a correspondence on the subject of the cancer statis- tics of the United Kingdom, Dr. William Ogle asked me on what authority I had somewhere made the statement that chimney-sweeps' cancer had become less frequent in this country. I replied that a general impression prevailed among us that such was the case, and quoted in favour of this impres- sion several of the leading textbooks of surgery. Dr. Ogle gave me to understand that the statistics of the Registrar-