The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-28
! rANcr THAT THEY HAVE CANCER.
Dyspeptie Fatie.ts NeedIsssiy Frightened
by Mr.. Newcombe's Case.


by Mr.. Newcombe's Case.
Tho Newspaper accounts Of the surgical
operation performed to relieve Lawyer Richard
g. Newcombe OF a cancer Of the stomach have.
Il appears. excited interest in other than
medical circles.
Operations to remove cancerous pyorus
or TO relieve the obstruction 1t Causes" said =
physician yesterday. are very rnrely success
full. The vitality OF the person suffering with
cancer OF tho stomach is necessarily very low
and It Is almost impossible for him to rally
from the effects OF an operation. There are
but n few instances In medical history where
such operations have been attempted. and then
only IS n foil orn hope Sometimes a section
~ the uylorus has been removed which con-
tains the cancorous growth and the TWO ends
have been brought together. but. even II the
patient RECEIVERS from the operation. another
cancer is more than likely to form.
"Of all cancers about twenty-five per cent.
are cancers Of the stomach and OF these fully
three-nfths affect tho pylorlc orlflcs. The py-
lorus Is not always so completely filled up as It
was in Mr. Newcombe's case: In fact, such in
stances are tho excep ion. The patient usu-
nlly dies from exhaustion In anytime from
three months to year and half from the do
velopment OF the cancer. The usua! duration
OF such cancor is about year. Physicians
have never been able 10 determine satisfactor-
ily the causes for the DEVELOPMENT Of Cancers
OF the stomach There nre many who believe
that they are hereditary affections. while
others attribute them to tho condition oil tho
system. -.,..
Is es ss H as
" those, which Indicate dyspepsia or ga. tritis.
heR t. be- so ri sn a
may Ce months eiore the physician discovers
e" MEAN his M death a III" Cancer sU Usual devsos
hut even this may BE- taken BY The Shys.'
sim as simply Hnothrr syn Of dyspspsa
h condition until he begins to loose flesh and
strenGth h., more ran,dly than can be exnlained
~ " n lime RI Esqs s
nSs = bss. as' ss not ~
BIZ a ION OF them ali that The disease is de-
iecled. lmrnirn,ent OF appetite Is almost
very frsnusnty 1 rsirain from s ood on ~ n"
count Of the great ram oocasioned. In an
iny stomach Iecome compIetely disordereIl.
When cancer involves he pylorio q itlce yom-
after it has we'll developed is very noticeable.
r or f Z, Az
the choking OF the orinco. TOO. one peculiar
# ,ns 81 s nsSs, mP that e w nee
TIN h ha,d mental dn.Stions "p to very short
.Spcnking or the similarity Of symp' oms
shown in Eastritis. cancers q the stomach. anil
1T ia worry difficult for the most careful ply
sirian TO tingnose The ronl trouble IN its in
after the disease has boon we'll developed.
since the accounts OF Mr. Newcombes Death
were pub shed this morning several OF my
patients have been to me in great alarm. fear.
ing that cancer OF tho stomach has attacked
dyspeptic really has incip!ent cancer nre very
remote, but Imagination plays very strong
Part with tho average patient. aud no matter
II you tell him that the chances are but one in
nifty Of his having cancer he will believe that
| no IL that fiftie.h man.