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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

SONTAG, Samuel

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1731

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Samuel Sontag: Dissertatio inauguralis medica de metastasi sive sede morborum mutata oder: Wie sich öffters eine Kranckheit in die andere verwandele. Praeside Hoffmanno.

HOFFMANN, Friedrich (1660 – 1742)
HOFFMANN, Friedrich (1660 – 1742) SONTAG, Samuel

Recamier (1829) is credited with coining the term metastasis with respect to cancer. It is evident that Hoffmann and his pupil Sontag used the term nearly 100 years earlier in this general thesis on disease. They did …