Abstract

Informed consent is commonly held to be a modern development that is linked with legal aftermaths. This paper presents the historical origins of this troublesome theme from 1753 to 1896. Hopefully, current adversarial attitudes would become minimal while surgical sagacity would fructify freely.

Highlights

  • Informed consent is clearly being thought of in terms of its being a modern legal issue

  • Current adversarial attitudes would become minimal while surgical sagacity would fructify freely

  • My 1962 review of the literature dealt at length with historical trends in cancer surgery [2], the realm of consent was not included

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Summary

Introduction

Informed consent is clearly being thought of in terms of its being a modern legal issue. In the case of one Mrs Appleyard, a middle-aged woman, documented by Hey [6] in 1803, she, herself apprehended her breast lesion to be of a cancerous nature, delay was such that “the tumour was so much increased in bulk, that she consented to the operation which I had proposed.”. On the left side of the neck there is present a small adherent nodule between the tendons of insertion of the left sterno-mastoid and an enlarged left supra-clavicular gland At this time she felt she was not improving, and consented to my doing anything that I thought would benefit her condition

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