Show II How now It Started I Ii 11 i- i By Jean n NeWton Newlon IE I Why Do We Call It Cancer is WE x TE WOULD hardly suspect that V V there was any relationship between between be be- tween the words cancer and crab yet that Is how It started We have our word cancer from the Identical Latin word meaning a crab the word Itself being taken from froin the Greek In which language It had the same meaning However the O Greeks reeks thought that the swollen veins reins accompanying certain certain certain tain diseases among which are what we know as cancer and canker ranker resembled resembled re re- resembled a crabs crab's claws And so so they applied this same word nord to the diseases an diseases nn application which has stuck In our language all through the centuries though canker and cancer cancer concer can con of course have long since been separated Into their modern medical categories O. O Bell Syndicate Service |