| Show JV fA V GOM V Lo Jr fl I 1 CANCER By WILLY MEYER M D New York City Member Corgis Gorgas Memorial Institute Medical l men have haTo known for many many- years year and the th public is be be- to realize and to appreciate date that I sc scIentific medicine Is definitely In the age a e of preventing disease Much has been accomplished scourges which f the people ot or the earth and the causes of o which are known are under control as for Instance smallpox diphtheria and typhoid provided those to be bo ben by these wonderful discoveries cries eries show good tood will find and operation sensible operation co-operation by allowing the tam lIy ily physician to rub Into their skin after superficial scratching or lect in-lect In with a clean syringe and I needle beneath It It th that t vaccine antitoxin or serum which has been found efficient However there is 19 one on disease the most terrible of all which has baffled d the Ingenuity of scIentists all over the world cancer world cancer As soon as we know what causes can can- cancer cancer eer the th foundation will have been beell laid to preventing Its It and development Fully aware of their handicap medical men are directing their attention to carly early recognition Thos Those tumors that can be seen or felt are aro most carefully diagnosed to determine whether they are cancerous It If found to be no so and not too far tar a advanced l they are promptly submitted to operation to treatment with rays which are arc arci i emanated by the thi X Ray tube or to de of C radium toI I Internal cancers are aro recognized I principally by the symptoms they pro produce l while Important or of examination assist In Inc establish lug Ing the diagnosis Worst of all aU are those e cancers which occur In tn the tubes through which wo w breathe and swallow n the divisions of oC the windpipe and within the canal which connects mouth and stomach the esophagus Up to the present moment al at almost most moat every patient who carries such a growth reaches caches the too late The public and medical men must work together to bring brine about a a prompt and wholesome change A persistent and nd unexplainable cough as well as difficulty In swallowing In formerly healthy In of o thirty years or more male us as well as female must at once arouse suspicion and be the tho signal to go so to a hospital ot or stand standing ing where wh re specialists can carefully examine X them Here the XRay tube lube an and l the tho electric lamp con con- conducted conducted ducted or thrown Into the wind trind- V pipe IDO and Its divisions as n well as Into the esophagus can ate ti refine or refute the suspicion or the diagnosis of oC the expert It properly recognized as cancer there Is then only one answer answer Jm Im Immediate mediate mc operation Fortunately the th surgery o of the chest has sufficiently advanced to to enable the operator of oC today not only to reach every organ In the chest but to reach It safely Meth Method ode od have been evolved to deal properly with the troubles men mentioned men Honed and give eiTe the patient his only chance A medicine a pill or a salve salvI d for these troubles b bv some tomo one who does not know not know means know means delay In doing doine the thing thing moans means destroying the hope tor for a definite cure cUIe 00 00 |
