Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-13
THE KAIsER'S AILMENT
Two Surgical Experts Say He Has Cancer.
CLAIM ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO IT

CLAIM ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO IT Is as Good as In His Grave-Bad Faint Said to Be In the Blood-Case on Record In New York Where a
 Benignant PapfIIoma Became Ma 1ignant.
 Two of the most distinguished can cer experts in New York said to New York World reporter, each without the knowledge of the other, that 1t was their positive belief that Emperor Will liam of Germany had been attacked by cancerous growth in the larynx. Said one at his home: '"The kaiser has a cancer as surely as I am sitting in this chair. All the evidence points that way. His father died of cancer in the larynx. His mother died of can cer. tell you, the emperor is as good as in his grave, great as is the pity of 1t. Do not be deceived by the early bulletins. Watch for a recurrencs of the growth. Watch for another opera ton,
 Remember the early bulletins when Grant was attacked. Remember the early bulletins when Williams father, the Grown Prince Frederick, developed the so called 'beuignant' growth in his throat. Cancer, that's what it is."
 Said the other surgical expert:
 'There is no doubt that the emperor @es oR +r6 rvvIA That is clear from the start. He has a very bad taint in his blood. His fa- ther, his mother and his aunt died of cancerous tumors. However, the world has about given up the belief in the hereditary transmission of cancer, and there is no reason for alarm simply be- cause his parents had these malignant growths.
 "When the Emperor Frederick (then the crown prince) was first attacked with the foreign growth in the larynx 1t was given out that it was a benig- nant growth. There is no doubt that from the start the growth was malig- nant. But Sir Morrell Mackenzie, the eminent English specialist, contended against the eminent German specialists
 
 less excrescence. Sir Morrell Macken- zie made the crown prince the emperor of Germany, and 100 days later the em- peror died. It was cancerous tumor from the beginning, but Frederick's accession to the throne made a differ ence of nearly $500, GOO a year in the income of his wife"
 At the Vanderbilt clinic of the Col lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Six Heth street and Amsterdam avenue there is the record of case which, in the minds of those who agree with the opinions of the two celebrated experts above quoted, may be prophetic of the outcome of Emperor Williams illness.
 The case in question came under the observation of Dr. Richard Frothing- ham, the instructor in throat diseases, who on request related the facts and circumstances. i'sg SEt
 The patient was member of the po- lice force. He was about forty-fye years old He first came under obser- vation when he applied at a clinic for relief from trouble in his throat. He had been bothered with hoarseness. : The throat was examined. The nou- ble was found to be in the larynx. The mirror revealed small, warty growth on one of the vocal cords about the size of very smalr pea. 3c..G4s
 An operation was performed with a pair of Mackenzie forceps, and the growth was removed. It was, to all appearances, an ordinary pap1floma of the vocal cord. The specimen was NvIh fo m ton, which confirmed the original diag- nosis of benign papilloma. There was no trace of malignancy.
 Tn less than a year the policeman re- turned to the clinic. He said he was again bothered by hoarseness. "A sec ond examination disclosed another be- nign papilloma, identical in appearance with the first and on the same spot in the larynx. There was a second opera tion, and the growth was removed with Mackenzie forceps and given over to the expert pathologfst, who again con- 6rraed the diagnosis of benign papil loma. There was no trace of malig- nancy.
 Two years later the policeman ap- piled third time for relief. This time, however, an examination showed an entirely different condition of the larnyx. Already there was fully de veloped cancerous growth in that or gsn. Both sides of the larnyx were in- volved, and the patient had reached the incurable stage. The cancerous growth was snared out and pathologic- ally examined. There was no longer any doubt of the true nature of the tu- nor.
 The patient lived for two years after the first removal of the cancer. He underwent dozen operations. Each time the cancer was snared out of the larynx, but it kept on renewing itself, and the progress of the disease was steady until the policeman succumbed to exhaustion and died of heart fail- ure. He lived for a year with a tra- cheotomy tube in his throat.
 Dr. Frothingham said this case was