The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-10
New York Doctor Declares No
Faith Should Be Placed in
Announcements
TREAT DISEASE EARLY
That The Only Safe Course,
Few Cases Necessarily Fa-
tai, But Each Requires Spe-
ciaI Methods; Expert Cau-
tons Woman Patients
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
Cancer usually is durable by the
use of present we'll known methods
as practised by experts in this dis
ease, when it is seen at an early stage
and sometimes at a later period.
1T is the duty of every one to OBJ
tain expert opinion at the earliest
stage to learn the nature of any alb
normal condition observed on any part
of the body.
There is no one substance or COM
bination of substances that ever can
cure all cases Of cancer; therefore no
reliance should be placed on state
ments. whether in a newspaper. mag
azine or medical journal, that a cam
Ger cure has been discovered in the
form of a serum, toxin. vaccine or
any private concocted by a
cancer specialist"
These are the conclusions of DR.. A.
r. Robinson. of No. 159 West Forty
ninth street. professor Of dermatology
at the Polytechnic Hospital and profess
sor Of histology and pathological
anatomy and dermatology at the Wo-
mems Medical College Of the New
York Infirmary. They are based on
an experience of thirty years in
specializing in the study and treatment
of cancer. In that period DR.. Robin
son has come to be recognized on two
continents as an authority. His MAN
ual of DermatOlogy'' has attracted the
commendatory attention of the med
ical world, and is regarded everywhere
as a standard treaties.
Or. Robinson's advice to the public
regarding cancer concerns a disease
Of which one in every eight persons
dies. DR.. Robinson holds that this
high rate is out of all proportion to
the necessary mortality from the dis
ease. There should not be more thar
one death In thirty from cancer, he
says, and a reduction to that ratio
can he realized if the public will give
the subject the attention due it.
Views in Medical Record.
In the current number Of the Medi'
cal Record appears the following com
m~untcation from the Board Of Man.
agement Of Polytechnic Hospital
"In view of the publicity which ha.
been given by the lay press to
method Of treating inoperable cancer
and the use that has been made o
the name Of the Polytechnic HOspita
Herewith. the management Of tn
Polytechnic desires to disclaim an.
connection with or responsibility 70
this method Of treatment. The case
that have been treated in the hospi
tai have been received as the privat
cases Of physicians who have the priv
ilege Of sending patients to the pa
wards and private rooms of the hos
pital."
DR.. Robinson Is the vice-presiden
Of the faculty Of Polytechnic Hospita.
and for nearly thirty years has lee
tured on the subject in that institu
ton. He was asked yesterday to am
plify the boards statement:
DR.. Robinson said the public shoul
beware Of cancer cures as adver
tised." He said it was Of the utmos
Importance that the public should b
taught that treatment Of cancer, Xix
medicine Itself, is not an xac science
and that there is no one specific fo
all cases.
Wages War on Cures"
Although medicine. DR.. Robinso
said. Is changing constantly to COZ
form to new discoveries and increase
knowledge, the profession should pr
sent a united front against the inven1
ors Of cancer "cures," who think the
have discovered a panacea and inc
dentally get into the newspaper
without paying the usual advertiser
rates. 1t is the duty Of the profe
sion. he asserts, to proclaim the sci
styled "cure-alls" as charlatanry.
IF our knowledge Of the value
cancer treatment" continued D
Robinson. was derived from articI
pr~oclaiming the virtues of some new
discovered serum. toxin, vaccine
whatnot. produced or about to
produced in some laboratory as Il
result OF original and exhaustive stu,
and experiments one must belle
that cancer was hitherto an incurab
disease, but that a new era h;
dawned In the therapeutics Of tn
afternoon. The physician who h
made a study Of this disease kno1
the value of these claims as the lai
cannot know, and so it pays to adve
tiSe,'
Every physician Of experien
knows that external and many int
nal cancers are durable when dia
nosed early and treated correctly. U