Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-18
SCIENCE WORKING
TOCONQUERT
But So Far the Only Known Remedy
Is the Knife, Says the Georgia
State Board of Health.

tific study in recent years has develop
ed some interesting and valuable facts
regarding tumors of all classes, which
have served important purpose in
treating them.
The one important conclusion reach
ed by the most eminent medical scien-
lists of Europe and America-and
this conclusion is Endorsed by the
Georgia State Board of Health-is
that the only remedy for cancer or
any tumor of the malignant sort, is
excelsior. Somewhere there exists
possibly, a specific for tumors, but
science has not yet discovered it and
until it does, the only satisfactory
remedy for the tumor or cancer, is the
knife applied in it's earliest stages,
Quack remedies, advertised speci-
fics, are worse than useless, for they
allow time for the continued develop
ment of the disease, whereas excision
in early stages might mean a cure.
But even the knife is seldom effective
after a malignant tumor has made ex-
tensive progress and spread itself
over a large area of the body
Another interesting now undsputed
fact as to tumors, is that cancer is
not caused by bacteria.
Tissue Running Riot.
The tumor, based upon attained
knowledge of its characteristics, may
perhaps be best described as flesh or
tissue running riot The cells, or
smallest component parts, of can
cerous growth are exactly the same in
form and structure as those of the
normal and healthy tissue surround
ing them. A family of several sons
may live normally and nationally for
years, when suddenly one of them for
reasons perhaps inexplicable, will de-
velop wild tendencies and turn out a
vagabond and debauchee. So with the
tissues of the body, almost any one of
which. apparently without cause, may
become riotious and grow like par
asite. The dangerous tumors come
usually past middle life, after man
has reached the age of forty; and
they grow without form or purpose.
Medical science has classified tu-
mors under many heads according to
where they make their appearance,
their nature and their condition. The
two larger classes are the epiblastic
and mesobastic tumors the epblastic
tumors occur on the outer lining of
the body, anywhere on it's surface, or
on the mucous membrane lining, the
mouth, gullet, stomach and intestines,
which is simply continuation of the
outer lining and the mesoblastic tu-
mors occur in the inner or connective
tissues, in the muscles, fatty tissues,
bones, carriages, blood vessels, lymph
vessels and glands.
Both classes are divided again into
benign" and malignant tumors
the former being those of milder from
often not considered dangerous, and
the second being very dangerous and
likely to result in death unless effec-
lively removed. All malignant tumors
are cancers in common parlance.
Benign tumors of the first-class are
known as adenoma, when they origi-
nate from a gland such as the breast,
the liver, the pancreas and 9th RS. and
as papilloma when they originate from
the skin The danger in tumors of
this sort, especially in case of the
adenoma, is that they are liable to de-
velop into the malignant type, or
cancer. A small and apparently inof-
fensive tumor of the breast may east
ly become a cancer, or carcinoma, the
name given to malignant tumors of
the first-class originating in the
glands. Malignant tumors of this
class originating from the skin are
known as epitheloma
These malignant tumors of the
first class are the most common forms
of cancer and occur usually in per
sons past forty years of age They
are spread by the lymph vessels of
the body, and when the operation Is
performed for their removal, exceed
ing care has to be taken to remove any
lymph vessels and any nearby lymph
glands which might contain the cells
from which a new growth would set
up For example, in removing can
Ger of the breast, it is necessary to
take out the lymph gland in the arm
pit and the lymph vessels leading to it.
Mesoblastic tumors of the benign"
class are numerous and take their
names from the various tissues in
which they occur, such as fibromd
from fibrous tissue, lipoma from fat
tissue. osteoma from bone tissue, my
oma from muscle tissue and so on.
Mesoblastic tumors, all of which oc-
cur in the inner or connective tissue,
when malignant, are spread entirely by
blood vessels. They are irregular and
formless masses of cells similar to
the cells of surrounding tissue
1t is the malignant tumors of this class
that are amc7g the most dangerous
of all new growths. These are known
as sarcoma. and all arise from some
of the tissues below the skin. They
are supplied by the hood vessels.
There are many varieties, depending