Bernard Peyrilhe (1737-1804) and the first experimental transmission of cancer.
Professor Bernard Peyrilhe occupied the chairs of surgical chemistry and medica materia at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. He was a great surgeon, cancer specialist and historian of medicine. He led in depth studies on cancer and realized the first experimental transmission of cancer by injecting extracts of breast cancer into an animal.
Department of History of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. lyon48@otenet.gr
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