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Show CAUSE OF CANCER NOT KNOWNv Cancer is not contagious nof hereditary and can be best cured by the knife, according to the eonclu-fions eonclu-fions arrived a1 by the cancer commission of Harvard Har-vard medical college, composed of seven physicians who have been experimenting on the disease for the past four vears and whose report is now in the hands of the printer. There is no other known cure except in the mildest cases, when the X-ray sometimes some-times succeeds. , . , The research has been made with a fund ot 7 $100,000. left br Mrs. Caroline Brewer Croft to Harvard for this specific purpose. Some member ot her family died of cancer and this caused her to leave money, hoping to benefit mankind by having a corps of experts thoroughly investigate the subject. sub-ject. . . . a. : |