Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
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POPULAR LECTURE ON CANCERS.
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Hard Cancers. Soft Cancers, Jelly-Like
Cancers and Skin Cancers.
PEOPLE UNNECESSARILY FRIGHTENED
ABOUT THEM.
Genuine Cancer Rare Disease.
Genuine Cancer a Rare Disease.
Row to Treat GlanG-Iar Enlargements
CSo-Called Cancers.)
Advice to the Victims of Real Cancer.

of its fanCied resemblance TO crab
cancer being the latin for crab. That
there is any real difference in the nature
of the various growths called cancers is
not known, but because they differ in
some particulars they are divided into
four principal varieties-hard (scirrhus)
soft (sarcoma), colloid and epithelial
(skin caucer). The hard cancer attacks
the breast, skin, rectum, testicle, tonsn
and eye. The soft cancer occurs in the
bones breast, eye, uterus and bladder.
The oolloid cancer is found in the peri
toneum, ovary, breast, limbs, parotid,
recuum, and in the alimentary canal.
The epithelium cancer locates itself on
places where the mucous membrane
meets the skin; hence the lips, eyelids,
ties represent each a different disease or
the same disease greatly modified no one
knows. This much is known, however;
that, SO far as any treatment is useful
for cancer, it is equally applicable to
these four kinds. What cures one kind
will cure all four.
1t was thought at one time that the
discovery of the so-called cancer cell
would enable the microscopic TO in
fallibly detect the true cancer. But the
no light is shed on the matter by the
microscope. By some any growth that
causes decorating pains, enlargement of
the surrounding Emphatic glands, and
tendency to become fixed OF immovable,
Ii called q cancer at once. but the nu-
merous mistakes whiclB this assumption
leads to shows it to be an unreliable in
dication of true cancer. The uncertainty
which hovers over every suppose bic case
of cancer is largely responsible for the
widespread fear as TO the possible nature
of every trivial enlargement for fear IL
may be cancer. This scare about cancers
Is doing vast deal OF harm, not only in
the incalouble anxiety and needless ex-
pense that it causes, but IL actually sends
TO premature graves quite q number of
people annually from heroic treatment
for alleged cancers. This evil is asum-
ing such vast proportions that 1t becomes
the duty of every regular surgeon to do
all he can to warn the masses against it.
No one surgeon has treated greater
nifmber of So called cancers than l have
in the last twenty-five or thirty years,
and my experience has taught me that
only a very small fraction of the cases
treated for cancer are really cancers.
A syphilitio or scrofulitio sore on the
lip is almost invariably called smokers
cancer, which, of course, is only aggra-
Yated by removing il either with a plas-
ter or knife. The proper constitutional
treatment would invariably cure such
cases without any surgical interference
whatever. Scrofula syphilis and tuber-
culosis often produces'R peculiar chronic
sore throat, which;n hundreds of times
mistaken for cancer of the throat; and
~ 80,
cal Intes1erenesg TO inevitably sacrifice
the life % thsspatient. A few months
use of theusatment already referred to
would remste every vestige of this kind
of sore thret- Cases called cancer of
the stoma1h ase very frequently chronic
ulcerarionof a.eRtarrhal or syphilitic or
possibly rofulitle origin, and could be
cured byfaithfuI Internal medication of
the propsr kind. have known cases
like the kbove desoT9bed, after they were
given uptby very raputable physicians,
to get ny constitutional remedy-La-
Gu pi-aAApd cure thsnselves. Many
cases of Supposed caIeeT of the womb
have proven to be chrdnio liberation
(probably catarrhal or syphhitic) which,
after waiting for months to- die, have
La-cu-pi-R and recovered per-
fectly. 1 have known what has been
treated as cancer OF the rectum for
months by the best physicians to turn
out TO be pelvic Hboesses, which a course
of treatment with Lao -pi-a cured COM
pletely.
Scrofulous and syphilitic growths so
perfectly resemble cRncerous growths
very frequently that even with the sid
of the microscope no difference can be
detected. To use the knife or plaster
to remove any growth OF syphilitic or
scrofulitic origin IS simply suicidal. The
frightful list of mortality from supposed
cancerous growths 1 believe TO be much
greater than it would be, because of the
heroic treatment, that is commonly used.
Real cancer is a very rare disease, and
is totally incurable by either knife or
plaster. My advice is to all who have
any growth suspected to be concerous TO
commence at once thoroughly conititu
tional treatment. know La-cu-p i-s to |
be the best remedy for that purpose ever
in7ented. Great numbers have used it
after they had been treated years for
cancer by the regular surgeon and can
Ger specialists, and found, to their sur
prise and Joy, that thorough constitu-
tional treatment was all they needed.
The reputation that La-cu-pi-a enjoys
to-day as a cancer cure Is, believe, en-
tirely due to the large number of sup
posed cancers, which are really some |
blood disease. I earnestly advise any
one so afflicted, no matter how hopeless |
you may consider yourself, TO give La
cu-pi-a a thorough trial. If, after a |
faithful use of this great Alternative treat |
ment, the supposed cancer keeps on |
growing, you may be sure you have a |
genuine cancer TO deal with, and you |
had better pat yourself in the care of |
some regular surgeon who makes the |
Of cancer a speciality.
The treatment which 1 have adopted,
after very extensive experience in the |
cure OF genuine cancers, can only be sue
carried out at my Surgical In
stitute at Columbus, Ohio. do not un-
dertake the cure OF real cancers outside, |
as my treatment requires the constant |
vigilance of competent surgeons TO prop |
erly carry it out. use neither knife nor |
plaster, and one of the reasons why my |
treatment cures SO many more than other |
kinds IL that It causes no pain or loss of |
blood to reduce the system of the patient. |
] do not know that any other surgical IN |
stitute in this country has either the |
or facilities necessary TO carry |
out in detail my treatment for cancer,
many cases are successfully |
treated 10 some of the, surgical hospitals
OF the larger cities. It was not my pur-