Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-04-03
ABOUT CANCERS.
THEY ARE PRONOUNCED INCURABLE
EXCEPT BY CUTTING.
Two Great Glasses, the Benign and this
Malignant - Cancer Cells, Fibers
and Fluids Not Contagious
But Often Hereditary.
indianapolis Journal Interview

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ais cancer of the tongue very fatal?'
inquired the reporter of a medical friend
"Acs. tincc seeing the article on Gen.
Grants sad condition in sundays paper,
! looked ~ the statistics in The new cdi.
ton of - gncw surgery. OF seventy
two cases of cancer Of the tongue ana
lived by DR.. Agncw, forty were males
and thifty.two females. Most Of the cases
occur between - and 30, and most die
within Il year.
$40 many cases of cancer recover"
"That depends on the kind of cancer,
its degree of malignity, and the time of
operation, if removal DC resOrted to.
Most tongue cancers are of the epithelial
FORM and generally are primary. There
is no agreement in the Classification of
cancers. All tumors and morbid or alb
normal growths are best regarded as forms
of structural degeneration, or vitiated nu-
triton. All such growths are referred
to one or the other of two great classes.
There are the benign, or harmless, and
the malignant Fatty, tibrous, and bony
tumors are examples of the benign
tumors. Fly malignant tumors we
mean such as are prone to un-
limited growth in size. They are dis
astrous in effect or result, and di;acut or
impossible of arrest or cure. athOlogiC
ally, all malignant growths are csseut ally
canccrous-their subdivisions are merely
clinical or surgical Cancer is an Anglo
Saxon word which means to eat away or
corrodc; Canker and chancre are other
forms of it. Benign tumors attach them
selves to one kind of tissue-they are
simple accumulatons of bone, fat, or
muscle, and do not include the adjacent
tissues, nerves and blood vessels Cancer
Gus growth are always rich in connective
tissue libers and enormous production
OF cells variously shaped, but of the
opithelial type. They involve and de-
sroy all the tissues in the way of their
/ growth: they rapidly tend to molecular
death, often becoming bloody, gangren-
GUS, and putrid they are more likely than
not to return after removal | suppose
! from what has been written about Gen
/ Grants case it comes under Waidcyer 5
tcrse definition Of Il canCer-an 'atypical
/ cpitAclial neoplasn. If they have Il good
deal OF hard nbrous tissue in them little of
/ the so called cancer juice, and but few
cells, they are called 'schirrhus, or hard
cancers if orange or jclly-like, 'coloid ;
if of net work of tibers, and with great
variety of cell forms, they are called
brain like cancers, encepahlod, or medul-
larry: ;"
MAY a cancer be known by its micro.
scoplc appearances"
"lcs, and no. The microscope con-
firms rather than determines the diagnosis.
Pathologisls and micrologists no Longer
believe in distinctive cancer cell The
cells, tbers, and fluids Of cancer are va.
rious and abnormal Tie cells are OF va
rious shapes and sizes, averaging the
1O0Oth of an inch in diameter. The cells
are like the cells of glandular structures
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cep''on' 4u"cNs I'M "nu linp"s'oiS . nH
'he le7enu, Nalicer cure" WIN
tracts MANY The Guardians sometime
removo hniiUn ~rovths and swear the,