The great surgeon Eugène Doyen (1859-1916) and his disputable treatments of cancer.
We present the case of Eugène Doyen, famous Professor of surgery and gifted practitioner, distinguished by his surgical techniques and inventions but hardly criticized for violating the medical morals by his experiments on cancer grafts and the development of an anticancer serum as noisy as ineffective.
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Department of History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Lyon48@otenet.gr
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Vladimiros
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