The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-06-24
STOMACH CAN
GER DURABLE
SO Or. W. D. Mayo Declares Before
Annual Convention Of Ameri.
can Medical
Association

Minneapolis, MINI, June 1s,-In fif
r teen sectional meetings the second
day of the sixty-fourth annual con.
: vention OF the American Medical as.
ISOLATION opened today on the Uni.
versity of Minnesota campus. vari.
Gus subjects were discussed, all OF
technical nature.
That cancer of the stomach is d
durable disease was the declaration
Of William ID. Mayo of Rochester,
MINI.
"A favorable diagnosis can be estab.
lished by simple methods" he assert
ed, "a history Of gastric disturbance
precedes cancer in a large number
if not the majority OF cases. Opera.
tions for cancer Of the stomach
should begin as an exploration. Mod.
crate involvment of the pancreas
does not necessarily preclude opera.
ton. Palliative operations have a
field Of usefulness.
DR.. Mayo gave a review of Stats.
tics of signs. and symptoms observed
in 1000 patients operated On for can.
Ger Of the stomach.
Radium
Radium as a physical agency was
discussed in paper by DR.. Howard
A. Kelly Of Baltimore, Md. It's action
he said, is local and is destined to be
a potent aid in the treatment of gym.
geological conditions. He asserted |
that radium will cure some cancers |
and will especially eliminate many
cases of local recurrence which are
difficult to treat by many of the GUS
tomary surgical methods. Its import
ance in the treatment OF f1proid tum.
ors is just beginning to be recogniz.
ed. 1t checks hemorrhage and in
some cases materiallny decreases the
size of the growths. In pelvic infam.
matory disease, its use is very hope.
full. but this, he said, is still new
field.
Trachoma
Lantern slides were used by D..
]. A. Stucky of Lexingtonf Ky, to
Illustrate paper on trachoma among !,
lathe mountaineers of eastern Ken.
lucky. The increase of this disease
IN 20 years among the Anglo Saxons
Of these mountains led Dr. Stucky
10 make trip of observation through
I've counties on muleback. He de-
'cribed unmistakable evidence of the
and destruc,iveness of
he disease. He gave the delegates
What he considered a solution of the
problem of eradicating the malady.
Trachoma among the Indians was
discussed in a paper by DR.. J. w.
'chereschewsky of Washington, d.
= He asserted that of $4,000 Indi.
ms in the United States, II per cent
re suffering from trachoma. The in
idence of the disease varies from 20
er cent of those examined in Okla
oma to q per cent in New York L
tate. The disease was most preva. a
emit among Indians of the boarding G
chools and least among reservation s
indians. I
Six thousand cases of needless blind =
ess occur in the United States each
ear. This statement was made by
ienry Copley Greene, agent for the
observation of eyesight of the Mas
achusetts commission for the blind.
This condition, Mr.. Greene said.
'as challenge to the medical profes- =
ion and called for the cooperation |
I oculists, social workers and law {
lakers. Much of the needless blind. c
ess, he said was due to lack of at. ]
ention to sore eyes among babies.
While DR.. C. ID. Camp Of Ann Ar j
or, Mich, had noted no undue pro- j
orion of cases OF epilepsy and pare
Is among locomotive engineers and
remen, he suggested that 1t would
e in the interest Of the travelling pub
Ic to examine candidates for these !
M AZ tka.o a eStlatto.. I