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Show she is touay alive 'and well. Every doctor can give similar testimony. Dt-aths from cancer can be reduc- ed materially in this country If doctors are consulted and quacks ignored. : The thing to do is to consult your doctor and abide by what he advises. ad-vises. Last year a majority of persons who died of cancer in the United States never went to a registered physician for assistance. Instead, they consulted quacks, took their remedies and died, when a great number or them might easily have had their lives prolonged or been completely cured. One quack, for a large fee, sold each person a bit of blue glass which, "when the sun's rays shone through it on the cancer, cured the ill one." A Chinese "herb doctor" doc-tor" sold perfumed joss sticks for the cure of cancer and printed a testimonial from a United States Senator, in which he thanked him for curing him. Cancer is curable if properly diagnosed in its early stages. Twenty years ago I operated on a doctor's wife for cancer and THE DOCTOR' bWEAnGHINMUGHMJl CANCER CURES . . . Archigenes, who lived in the second century, , was, perhaps, the first surgeon who operated on a patient with cancer and his description des-cription of his observations in this feld- are most interesting. Hipocrates, Hipo-crates, Galen Celsus and other early medical writers recognized this disease also, and learned then, as we doctors know now, that if properly treated in its initial ini-tial stages, the possibilities of saving the life of the patient were very good. The early Arabian surgeons, borrowing pages from Greek medi- cine, operated regularly on cancer patients with success, and perhaps per-haps made the greatest advance of the time in the treatment of this condition. When the microscope was first devised it was considered a scientific scien-tific toy, and medical men paid slight attention to it in doing research re-search work on or in studying diseases. Gradually, as it was perfected, per-fected, its great possibilities were seen, particularly in studying the smallest units of the living tissue of the body, namely, the cells for the human body is nothing but an aggregation of cells. Then came Virchow, who discovered, dis-covered, with the aid of the modern mo-dern microscope, that disease was merely the changed and disordered disorder-ed cells of the living tissues. Today To-day no physician's equipment is complete without a modern microscope, micro-scope, and it serves a thousand purposes In making a diagnosis. If you suspect you have a foreign for-eign growth in any part of your body, do not for one minute have anything to do with the quacks who thrive on people thus troubled. trou-bled. These men know nothing about cancer and the most remarkable re-markable thing about the leading advertising quack who specialized in cancer treatment is that he died of this very disease recently. |