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JURAJ KÖRBLER, M.D.

AMA Arch Otolaryngol. 1953;57(4):402-404.

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IN THE time of the ancient Roman emperors cancer was a disease well known not only to members of the medical profession but also to the general public. In his great poem "Metamorphoses" P. Ovidius Naso (43 B. C.—17 or 18 A. D.), a contemporary of Augustus, in relating the petrification of the jealous Aglauros mentions cancer:

"As an incurable evil, cancer usually spreads, joining healthy parts to the sick."¹ This poem was not intended for a selected class of intellectuals but for the more enlightened general populace. It must have been presumed by the poet who penned these lines that the intelligent masses knew about cancer and the most important symptoms of the disease.

Nevertheless, many a case must have passed undetected. Cancer of the internal organs was inaccessible to the diagnostic art of the physicians, and only cancer of the skin or of the mammary gland was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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ZAGREB, JUGOSLAVIA

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