Download or read book Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 47 written by American Philosophical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 47: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge In the course of the last five years, partly through the aid of their respective governments and partly through private initiative, institutions have been founded in the majority of civilized countries for the investigation of the causes and the conditions of growth of malignant tumors; or, as briefly named, for the investigation of cancer. This fact proves more clearly than anything else could do the widespread interest that has recently been aroused in this part of pathological research. Pathological investigations share with those of other sciences a double nature. On the one hand, their problems are of a practical character. Pathology wants to find the causes of diseases and the conditions that favor and inhibit their progress, in order to lay a firm and scientific basis for their cure. In this respect, pathology is an applied, a technical science. On the other hand, pathology desires to analyze the conditions that ulti mately lead to death, in order to recognize some of the phenomena of life. In that sense, pathology is a pure science; its aim is philosophical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.