The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-25
KNIFE IS THE ONLY
Cure FOR CANCER,
SAYS SURGEON
csmplste Recovery Results In So Per
Cent Of Cases Treated in Early
Stages.

d.. =. l.. Keyes, Jr., OF New York,
1vhoae books on kidney affections are
low being used extensively In many
~ the medical colleges of the country,
rfoyided revelation for the major
Ity 0f the doctors in attendance at
1he Wednesday morning clinic Of the
Detroit College OF Medicine Alumni
association, In the amphitheater OF
St. Mary,s hospital. His surprise con
nisted of an exploration Of a portion
% the interior OF woman's stomach
With an electric lamp. by which
means the trouble from which she
was suffering was easily discernible.
Dr.. Keyes also demonstrated the
. use Of cocaine and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- an anaesthetic. He injected the
drugs into the woman patients spin
~ ealsmn4 thus making the entire
Iower part Of her body insensitive to
pain. That the anaesthetic perform
"a ito work satisfactorily was evident
from the manner in which the patient
acted throughout the operation. Not
once did she vince She didn't see
+ Dr. Keyes at work, however, her head
having been covered.
This was not the first time cocaine
Observation-Disclosures was ubCu al
N anaesthetic In Detroit. Its use
Was resorted to In Harper hospital,
oome time ago, In the amputation OF
, mans leg. He watched the sur
ICONS cut on the limb, feeling the
operation no more than IL he had
BEEN under. the influence OF chloro-
form or ether.
DR.. Reyes showed number OF x
nv pictures to demonstrate how GER
tain foreign substances and growths
had been located In human bodies.
Dr.. II b. Walker, OF Detroit, lee
<ured on Cancer OF the breast" and
had woman patient for demonstrate
Ing purposes. He told OF the ravages
of the disease and said that II was
more deadly than tuberculosis among
women In England. according to sta
<istics. He urged his hearers 20
ohow no hesitancy In operating to re.
move q cancer of the breast.
Cancers are absolutely surgical
cases. rather than medical said DR.. |
Walker, 'and know of no remedy but
the use Of the knife. l want to warn |
you, too, against waiting for the symp- |
tom OF pain to develop before being
sure your patient has a cancer of the
breast. When the pain arrives the
growth Is generally too far advanced /
- allow clean removal Of It.
III n essential that an early oper. Z
o<ion be performed, because the can
Ger II not likely to grow again II re-
m0yed In It's early stages. As mat
ter OF fact. 1t has been shown that
s. per cent of those operated on when
the cancer is just beginning to take
root, recover completely.
"On the other hand" DIR. Walker
nnid. when cancer was allowed to
make further inroads before operat-
Ing was resorted to the percentage of
oures was reduced to rs, while, in
other cases, where the disease pene-
tsted under the collarbone, there |
was practically no cure at al"
-Obstetrics and gynecology," was
the subject of an address by DR.. II.
w. Yates, of Detroit. He also held a
eureical clinic
The members OF the Alumni associ-
alton had an outing on the steamer
Toohm0o, Tuesday afternoon, going |
- lar as the Flats on the upper trip |
Nd Into Lake Erie on the down
~1lnd voyage. They had dinner on
boat as the guests of DR.. p. M.
W. Previous to taking the wa
nip. the doctors inspected the
Of Parke, Davis & Co., manu-
1rIDg chemists, and were shown
Number Of scientific demonstrations
professors In the laboratory.