Show Freaks lS and aed Oddities Od In Sc Science Ne' Ne News According to lo the best statistics approximately 1 people will die of cancer In the tile United States ill In n 1931 says r. r s 's Dr William Carpenter Mac MacCart of the Mayo Mao clinic Rochester Minn I At least two million people In the EARLY EARLl United States are ate suffering from rom I RECOGNITION ITO cancer Dr MacCarty MacCart estimated BEST CURE Many of them have never nc consulted I OF CANCER a n physician The disease Is more c common In Iii i omen t and therefore hits hita the most important member mem meni- I her ber r of the family he lie said The Thc disease e is 15 recognizable and nd curable in I its I early stages do not manifest manliest themselves es a a. acan cancer cancer cancer can can- but as ns lumps sores unusual bleedings discharges and protracted indigestion Patients with advanced and incurable cancer can be relieved ed of ot much discomfort discomfort discomfort dis dis- dis- dis comfort to themselves and others Most deaths irom Ironi cancer should have hare been prevented prevented pre pre- vented by three things prop proper r mating of individuals without the herE hereditary predl predisposition t to cancer the elimination of prolonged Irritation and carl early recognition recognition recognition by b well trained physicians S S Po Possibility o of or radium playing a role in vitamin proU production pro- pro U at least in the laboratory has appeared AcU Activated at 1 is a ft potent source of vitamin D D. The radium activated reached a degree of potency equal to one thousand times that of a good grade or of cod liver oil or one-hundredth one of that ob obtained ob- ob by the S uHra ra ray method m a a a aThe The pill Jill of immortality was fought sought by the Chinese alchemists In the third century B D. D C. C long before Europeans Europeans Europeans Eu Eu- began their fruitless search for th the elixir ir of life according to Professor Tenney QUEST FOR L. L Davis and Lu Chiang Wu of the IMMORTALITY 1 Massachusetts Institute of Tech Tech- MADE nolo BY fly CHINESE To bt become ome a hsien was Yas the dream that lured on those early scientists In their quest for Immortality A hsien n wasa was wasa wasa a benevolent supernatural being endowed with ex ex- ex powers able to appear and disappear at atwill atwill will to pass unharmed through fire and water The western counterpart of or this idea the elixir was Invented in by the Arabs and borrowed from them by European alchemists said Professor Davis The elixir was a sort wrt of medicine by which ordinary existence was supposed upp to be prolonged In In- In definitely The obviously different notion of hsien halen Is taken as evidence for fot the independent ori origin ln of Chinese chemistry and den es from the philosopher Lao Tzu |