Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-07-29
MEDICAL SOCIETY
MEETS.

The quarterly meeting Of the
Wayne County Medical Society was
held Thursday. July 81, 1910. AZ the
summer home Of DR.. Geo. I Rcd
man, at Fairview Lake, Pike County
Members in attendance were Doc
tors W. A. Stevens. A. b Stevens,
e. o. Bang, s. A. Bang, F. w Cor
son, A. j. Simons, o. J. Mullen, g.
T. Rodman, r. W. Brady, p. F
Griffin, w. 7. McCOnvill aud l. B.
Nelson. Also the following visit
ors: Doctors J. N. Wainright, A
w. Smith, d. A. Webb, ]. ID. Will
son, II. +. Smith. and X g. Perkins
Of Scranton. u. B. Hand Of Dalton.
r. II. Ely and II, r. Wall of-Hawiey
About half the doctnrs were accom-
psnied by their wives.
Atten thirty A. NJ. Presi i1ent w.
A. Stevens called the meeting to or
der. After routine business had beer
disposed Of, Doctors John e. Bennett
of Starrucca, Wayne County, and
Frank Smith of Shohola, Pike COun
ty, were unanimously elected T.
Membership, making total active
R4Dibership Of thirty two, Including
Pike County physicians DIR, g. T
ROdman Of Hawley WIS elected die
gaze to the annual Convention Of th,
Medical Society of the State of Penn
to be held at Pittsbure, Oct. I,
Oct. 6
The subject for the COZ 8 deraiiOD
Of the meeting was Cancer"
"now we can help check the NOR
taliiy from cancer" wss the subject
of very able paper by Jonathan NJ
Wainright NJ. D.. Surgeon in Chiei
to the d. l.. and W. r. r and Chair
man of the Cancer Committee Of th,
State Medical Society. A genera
| ulecusSlOI IOllOHeu,
This meeting was part cf move
ment going on all over the State t.
try to check the present very higi
mortality of cancer. The paper ant
discussion showed that the presen'
mortality is due very largely to tn
TACT that n great part of the genera
public hold very erroneous ideas con-
cerninR cancerous grOwths and il !.
believed that general instruction oi
public concerning cancer will be 81
useful in saving lives as similar in
struction has already proved in the
case of Tuberculosis.
1t was shown first of all at the
meeting that cancer is very preva
lent disease, some four Ur FIVE Ithuus
and people dying of it every year il
Pennsylvania. and in a number o
districts in Penna the death Iat'
from cancer is as high as that from
tuberculosis.
The most harmful idea that l
held by the people is that cancer /
n cessarily a hopeless disease aT'
that when an individual Is ath cte'
with it, there is no use for any trea
ment whatever. This idea was sirJnI
ly combated by all physicians pres
ent and it was shown that If propO
treatment is begun early, cancer !
/ One of the most easily durable chron
! 1 diseases that there II. 1t is nevt
. constitutional disease affecting Il.
whole body, but in its early stages
/ Is always entirely local and confine
| to few cells, and If these disease
I cells are removed surgicslly the pc
. tient, in a vast majority Of case
! Will be permanently cured. OF cours
If the patient delays seeking medics
aid, tine disease will after a tim
spresd and finally reach an incurabl
, stage, and the principal reason no
why 30 many people die Of cancer
because they are so prone to wait III
!, Ill these latter incurable stages al
a reached. If these people had apple
10 medical men for treatment earl,
while their disease was still local an
entire.y rab e, their lives cOuI
probably have been saved
In nearly all cases. cancer shows
sell in ample time for complete cur
The ways in which It shows itself,
- c urse differ in different p0rtions
tie body One Of the mosl freque
situations of csncsr is in the breat
The trouble here first appears in Il
firm of a small hard lump. Al
r person who notices such a luu
Ii should SEEK medical advice Iat one
2 because II it is a cancer. il Is ve
y simple 10 remove it while it is st
d small and It wilhaImOst surely new
= come back
Cancer is also common in the stO
ach. Here It shows itself in sol
form Of indigestion or dyspeptic syr
y tons which are obstinate and do 4
\ Weld 70 medicines. So that any o
who has prolonged symptoms Of in'
Restion should Immediately ha
their cause determined without wa
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