Human Tumors: Histology, Diagnosis and Technique

Abstract

Successor to Lobstein and von Recklinghausen, the late Pierre Masson (1880-1959) held the chair of pathology at Strasbourg from 1918 to 1926. In 1927 he became professor and chairman of the department of pathologic anatomy at the University of Montreal, bringing the classical tradition of Franco-German morbid anatomy to North America. The first edition of<i>Human Tumors</i>appeared in French in 1923; the second, a complete revision, in 1957. Now in English, it makes accessible to American pathologists both the systematic, deductive approach to oncologic taxonomy and the detailed microscopical observations supporting it which characterize that school. The publication serves as testament to the memory of a distinguished scholar and teacher. But American pathology marches to the beat of a different drum, and has an empirical, less schematically conceptualized approach. Masson's own approach has won few adherents in American schools. Since the book is outdated for classroom teaching and not