[The Inferno by Henri Barbusse]@TWC D-Link bookThe Inferno CHAPTER IX 7/23
There's no use. The only result is to make them call us ignoramuses and hate us." "Does he realise ?" "I do not know.
While I examined him--you heard--I tried to find out by asking questions.
Once I thought he had no suspicion at all.
Then he seemed to understand his case as well as I did." "Sarcoma forms like the human embryo," said the younger doctor. "Yes, like the human embryo," the other assented and entered into a long elaboration of this idea. "The germ acts on the cell, as Lancereaux has pointed out, in the same way as a spermatozoon.
It is a micro-organism which penetrates the tissue, and selects and impregnates it, sets it vibrating, gives it /another life./ But the exciting agent of this intracellular activity, instead of being the normal germ of life, is a parasite." He went on to describe the process minutely and in highly scientific terms, and ended up by saying: "The cancerous tissue never achieves full development.
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