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Ira M. Rutkow, MD, MPH, DrPH

Arch Surg. 1998;133:683.

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When John Collins Warren (1778-1856) authored Surgical Observations on Tumours, With Cases and Operations (1837) it seems unlikely that he could have realized his monograph would come to represent the first major written American effort in the future specialty area of surgical oncology. Divided into 14 sections (ie, "Epidermoid Tumours," "Dermoid Tumours," "Tumours of the Cellular Membrane," "Muscular Tumours," "Peristeal Tumours," "Osseous Tumours," "Tumours of the Glands," "Tumours of the Secreting Glands," "Tumours of the Testis," "Tumours of the Mucous Glands," "Tumours of the Vascular Texture," "Tumours of the Membranous Textures," "Encysted Tumours," and "Abdominal Tumours") plus a glossary of distinguishing characteristics of tumors (eg, "Eiloides; a morbid growth of the cutis, coiled or folded"), the work became especially prized because it contained 16 hand-colored plates of patients by the master American engraver and caricaturist David Claypoole Johnston (1799-1865). Although it was Warren's intent . . . [Full Text of this Article]