Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-12
SEES SPREAD
OF THE CANCER
Homeopathic Congress in Ses-
sion at Atlantic City Hears
Interesting Papers.

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 12.-
Claiming that the pace of modern life
enforced upon the people the very
injuries most likely to result in can
cer-a disease unknown TO the abor-
ogines--Dr. William II. Dieffanback.
a noted specialist in the treatment of
This trouble, made the startling de-
~claratton before the Homeopathic
congress last night, that, despite ali
the notable advance in medical pro-
gress, especially in surgery and phys
zeal diagnosis, the mortality from
cancer is steadily growing. The
alarming situation was made no
more pleasant when the physician re-
marked tina modern enamel-ware as
used in the kitchens of the country
Is responsible for many cases of this
disease of greatest terror.
Even the Roentgen rays newest
production of modern science. he
claimed had been responsible for the
development of certain causes of can
Ger among noted discoveries who
failed to realize their danger.
Practice Widely Growing.
Enthusiastic support of the idea
presented in the address of President
William e. Green, yesterday, to the
effect that homeopathy in the med
ical world is fast assuming a position
of domination, was forthcoming in
every report from foreign lands, read
yesterday before the congress. Del
egates from England, Germany,
France, Italy, India, Brazil and other
countries told of the rapid growth of
the new school in other lands, and a
noticeable feature of nearly every re-
port was the fact that foreign physi-
clans found no such decline in the
pure principles as set down by Sam
uel Hahneman as have been reported
by American delegates. Applause
followed the statements that the new
school was gaining many adherents
every year.
Particularly favorable reports
came from Great Britain, through
DR.. Dyce Brown, one of the heads of
the London Homeopathic Hospital,
who admitted hat while the fight
waged against homeopathy by the
allopathic physicians had retarded
its growth at the start, that in laet
years the school has been making
great progress in the islands. In a
paper from India by Vice President
Pratrap Chandra Majunda . it was
claimed that not only is the science
of homeopathy gaining strength
there, but that the plague had shown
the absolute uselessness of allopathic
remedies which, he said, have been
practically discarded in favor of the
more soothing and e~fficacious reme-
dies of the new school. A cheer
greeted the report of DR.. G. Bondino,
of Italy, that the national govern
ment of his country had officially re-
cognized homeopathy.
Schools as Source of Epidemics.
Doctors were warned against the
failure to keep close tabs upon the
appearance of epidemics in public
schools in IN interesting paper on
Public Schools as Factors in Spread
ing Contagious Diseases by DR.. Ed
win II. Wolcott, of Rochester, N. Y,
director of the Division of Contag-
iousDiseases of the New York State
Board of Health. His statements
were based upon statistics gathered
from every section of the state.
Health boards, he declared, must be
made supreme in the enforcement of
sanitary conditions for schools and
modern, well-ventilated school build
ings. Expert j%anitors are as need
full as teachers" he said, 'if schools
are to be kept free from disease.
Schools are especially likely to be-
come centres of c%ontagion in COM
munities where the percentage of de-
graded population forces children of
the lower classes into schools under
the compulsory education law"