Show Daily Health Service By DR MORRIS Editor Journal of the American Medical Medical Medi Medi- cal Association and of the Health Magazine Dr Joseph C. C Bloodgood of BaltImore Baltimore Baltimore Balti BaltI- more a leading educator in the field of f cancer remarks that no beautiful woman oman suffers from cancer of the skin kin because she pays Immediate at at- to any skin blemish There Is evidence to indicate that cancers of the skin may arise from pigmented moles warts and other types of skin blemishes Cases have been reported of cancer of the thc skin over vcr the nose due to irritation of ot the skin kin there by glasses that pressed to too tightly Evidence indicates that cancer does docs not begin In a normal healthy skin Before the cancer begins to develop and md grow rapidly there appears a caly scaly rou roughness a dischar discharge c or a bleeding area on the skin kin This can be seen casU easily and felt and should have prompt and proper attention if C the I appearance of or cancer is to be pre yen vented ted Dr Bloodgood od s suggests es that su such areas be washed immediately with warm water soap and a clean cloth then rinsed with alcohol and covered with a little safe ointment in order to protect them i The ointment may then be covered with a small bit of cotton or a piece pice I of gauze fixed in place with adhesive straps When the these e blemishes of the skin are brought to the attention of a physician trained in handling sue such defects he knows many methods fo for removing them easily The methods include the use of the ray X-ray the us use of carbon dioxide snow which freezes freeze the lesion and causes the wart o or mole to drop of off Sometimes surgical removal which is properly done leaves only a tiny scar Since women have taken up smokIng smoke amok Ing there is reason to believe th t thc they will suffer Increasingly with wit cancer of the mouth Up to recen recent times limes cancer of the mouth was pr manly marily a disease o of man I Dr Bloodgood points out that th the modern woman is teaching man how to smoke with the least risk of cancer because she keeps her teeth clean clea and smooth and when properly informed in informed formed seeks examination by a den dentist list or by her physician the moment she discovers a sore spot A sore spot in the mouth lOa may b be bethe bethe the beginning of any anyone one of a number of Infections or disorders disorder and should always have careful atten atten- tion A good dentist not anI only protects his patient against cancer of the mouth but knows what to di 00 when there Ls L pain a loose tooth a gumboil or j i swelling of the jaw |