The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
WHEN DOCTORS
DISAGREE.

n EMARKABLE recoveTfes occur and
- wonderful cures are sometimes ef-
fected in ways unsuspected by med
ical science and it's students. A Pittsburg
man standing high in steel and iron in
dustries has recently undergone a mar
yelouS cure for cancer. For some years
what physicians and surgeons pronounced
cancerous growth had been slowly but
surely eating away part Of his right
cheek, close to the nose. He had con-
suited eminent surgeons in this country
and Europe, he had visited innumera0le
baths famous for the cure of blood dis
eases and at last had been given I'D 10
die slowly but surely of the dread dis
e2se. During a recent visit to New York
lie consulted a young but promising dem
tist regarding tooth winch had been
bothering him. The troublesome nolar
was located in the lower jaw and the
pain was soon stopped, but the young
dentist begged permission to examine his
new patients mouth thoroughly and was
especially interested in the mans calm
resignation to death from cancer. At the
conclusion of the operation he offered
as his diagnosis that the disease was not
cancer, but trouble with molar in the
upper jaw. AT first the Pfttsburger was
inclined TO be skeptical, but the dentist
urged that the loss of one molar was
small compared with the risk of other
operations through which he had passed,
and finally the sufferer consented and
was placed under the influence of ether.
The operation was far from simple, last
ing more than an hour, but the result
justified the dentists predictions. With
the tooth came away tiny blade OF
steel which had been driven up into the
jaw by careless dentist years before
1t had festered and the pus had forced a
passage out through the cheek. giving
the appearance of a canccrous growth.
After weeks of treatment the cavity
healed up perfectly and the Pittsburger
has decided that cancerous death is
no longer staring him in the face.
A New Yorker who had recently lost his
father from cancer of the throat seemed
suddenly afflicted with the same disease.
His throat bothered him necessarily, his
speech became almost unintelligibIe and
! he grew haggard and thin from anxiety
and pain. Most of all he missed his
cigars. for his physician at once cut OF
all smoking. One day he met an old col
lege friend who had developed into sue
cessful dentist In the course of their
first conversation the patient mentioned
that he had been having sore trouble
with the plate attached to an upper set Of
false teeth
A large and complicated bridge was
finally inserted and the plate discarded.
To the patients amazement. the throat
trouble disappeared along with the plate
Philadelphia business woman of more
than local repute broke down with nerv-
Gus prostration. Her most unfortunate
form of affiiction was intense pains in
the head, which prevented her sleeping
night or day. Her physician recommend
ed an ocean voyage, but she landed in
London in worse condition than when
she left America. She finally confided to
friend travelling with her that she be-
lieved she was going insane. During the
trip across the Continent to Berlin, where
famous nerve specialist was to be con-
suited, the Philadelphia became melan-
choly and showed every symptom of
mental alteration The specialist studied
the case thoroughly. but before rendering
decision he lost his patient most abb
ruptly. She fell while climbing a fight
of marble steps and her glasses were
shattered She insisted that they must
be replaced without delay, and went 10
consult an oculist, who fitted her with
glasses, and, as if by magic, the violent
pains in the head disappeared, her nerv-
BUSINESS dropped from her and she became
as calm and even tempered as her anx-
ious travelling companion.