1850

Paul Broca, then a 25-year-old anatomy professor, wins Académie de Médicin’s Prix Portal on the question of cancer with his monograph (pub. In 1853) on cancer, viz, a detailed description of malignant neoplasm spreading by venous channels, but which held, mistakenly, to Johannes Müller’s 1838 blastema theory of cancer cell origin (i.e., that cancer cells arise from budding elements, a noncellular soup (blastema) between normal tissue, not from other, normal cells, per Virchow, whose famous aphorism -- “omnis cellula e cellula” -- was given in 1858) (Schiller, 62ff).