The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-08
CANCER AND TYPHOID.
Why Is One Regarded as Durable and
the Other as Incurable.
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New York Evening SUM-
Typhoid fever, like other infectious
diseases. is never cured in the usually
accepted. sense. namely, that the
applied removes the dis
Every case runs its we'll under
stood course, no matter what. MAJ be
the remedy or who may be the doc
tor.
The latter is greatly needed because
he is conversant with the cause,
symptoms. pathology and lethal tend
encies of the disease and the meas
by which he may inhibit or re-
move them. In fact. the skillful physt-
clan stands at the helm as does the
skillful pilot to divert the ,lethal. tend
encies Of the disease Just az the navi.
gator diverts the ship from the, dam
OF naturs.Sssthe n trusting to the
healing power of nature, which was
first recognized by the father Of medi-
cine, Hippocrates. and the other trust,
ing to the tides. the wind, the steam
or other %propelling power, both guild
ing with. judgment born Of knowledge
the precious freight intrusted to their
care. - - ra
A typhoid fever case may recover
even without assistance. Not so with
cancer. Nature never cures or re-
this disease; its course is mex
orably fatal. Here the doctor may
step. in and remove the disease abso-,
lutsly: there are few physicians vino
hafe not made this observation.
Why. then, Is typhoid fever regard
ed as durable and ANGER as incur
able? The answer is simple: the hui
man organism is supplied with all the
agencies to restore itself when at.
tackled by the Eberth bacillus, which
which the organism is Of itself capa.
BILE to cope with. These agencies the
physician understands, and he also
knows how to utilize them, just as the
pilot knows how to utilize the tides
and the wind. The physician also
knows that the life term Of the hacci-
Illus is definite and that II he can tide
the patient owe this term he will re-
cover.
He also sadly realizes that he a
no more than the pilot fay change
the tides or the winds. BY adapting
their courses to these existing natural
orces both are successful. Expert.
ence demonstrates that the earlier the
doctor steps in the fore favorable the
issue. That the doctor cures q case
o typhoid ever Is as fgurative an ex-
preston as to say the pilot takes the
ship to the dock.
Cancer. on the contrary. is not
Die to any curative agencies ex-
listing in the human body. The only
fethod o removing it is by the knie.
and the result depends entirely on
whether the removal has been &C
complished beore absorption frof the
diseased focus has taken place. De-
spite much contention upon the local
or constitutional character of this dis
ease. the fact remains that a very
large majority Of physicians agree
with the view expressed w DR.. How
ard Lilienthal in our issue Of June Fl,
that in the beginning cancer Is a To-
cal disease and ffay. be cured by op-
Grafton"
At this point appears the porten-
tion fact of which the. layfan must
take serious thought-the early diaf-
nosis of concer. Just as blood poison
Ing from a suddenly inflicted wound
may be prevented by suction and eau
50 may the poison Of can
Ger be removed by the knife. IL it
were IS easily recognized. The anal
ogy may be carried further. Just as
many probably would not have be-
come free Of Infection. so must every
a month of fore old be sub
mitted to a skillful diagnostician, and
II the slightest doubt exists 1t must be
removed. Whenever the good sense
of the community will realize these
truths. there will be no more fatuous
talking and writinf, mostly by quacks.
about medicinal cancer cures.
That the great congress of surseons
that convened In this city last fall is
sued an appeal to the public to be
more observant Of certain symptoms
that appear in women. as the prob
able forerunners Of cancer. is proof
of the position herein. formulated, "a
In time may almost invariably
cancer. Every swelling not
a. ..e must he regarded with suspi.
cion and its character decided BY
p%hysicians.