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Cancer back in the 1600s

Do you know what they called cancer back in the 1600’s?

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Answer #1

I think people died too young to get cancer back in the 1600’s. and if they DID get cancer, they probably called it the black plague, or something like that. mind you this is just speculation on my part.

Answer #2

The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), considered the “Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek these words refer to a crab, most likely applied to the disease because the finger-like spreading projections from a cancer called to mind the shape of a crab. Carcinoma is the most common type of cancer.

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