The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-06-12

which doctors call angiomas is.
blood vessel moles through which tiny
blood vessels course. as pretty. n you will
only look at them Alright. as the markings
in rose leaf. And there are black or
red moles. raised from the face. varying
from smooth TO rough and warty In ap-
pearsnce: and then there are the hairy
moles. II IS these raised, warty and
hairy moles that are the most dangerous
TO irritate or 10 operate on.
What means does the beauty doctor
employ 10 "beautify" his foolish clients?
lie may do electrolysis. that Is. drive
needles into the mole and then send an
electric current down through those
needles. thus destroying perhaps the
larger part Of the growth. which then
sloughs of. but almost never the whole.
What he has done, then. has been TO
leave an unsightly scar and 10 have irri-
tated and infamed the tissues that we're
before his fell work giving no trouble.
cancer be likely 20 develop. not in
weeks, perhaps, not in months, but all
too often in a year or two.
or the beauty doctor may elect 10 use
carbon diOXlde snow or perhaps LIQUID
air cat the temperature OF 1870 degrees
below the freezing point. ana II HIS
treatment has not resulted IN a hideous
scar, II has left as uusiEhtly an area OF
parchment skin not nearly TO say the
least. as becoming as the mole was. And
being like as not unskillful. not knowing
how long 10 apply thu agent. or the
amount OF pressure 20 exert-what cruel
cancer development has not gone on IN
der that surface. in the seat OF that ope-
ratioui
or the beauty doctor may try his
prentice hand" with the X-rays or with
radiuln. regarding which practise ] NAV
as well admit that. even I'm the practise
or able surgeons, undue exposure to
these agencies have been the forerunner
or all too many cancer deaths
Then there IS that saddest OF all femi-
nine maladles-c OF the breast
What surgeon Of practice could not tell
cases the most melancholy in all the
history OF his profession. Of operations
involving fearful mutilations. and then all
too ineneCfive-the narrative OF which
must be spared the reader How often e
the tight hitting. irritating corset respOn-
sible for such cancers. And how many an
Internal cancer Of the liver. the stomach
Of the organs peculiar 10 women, Ia due
TO such iuseusate friction.
Another vagary OF fashion Is the boned
collar. which IS certainly irritating TO the
eye of human masculinity. but far more
80 20 the necks OF the wearers. with pos
sible dire consequences. such as we have
dwelf on
And highheeled. tight shoes There
are medical records Of cases 81 cancer OF
the foot following blood bllsters caused
by tight footwear
And those pince-nez Cases OF cancer
have resulted from the irritation thus
caused. Fashion again. and yet what can
De more comc'y than the snugftting
spcctacles our mothers used 10 wear7
But the things our mothers used %
wear and do are not suitable 10 their
dauEnters Us here 90 be- found the reason
Tor our enormously increased cancer
mortality among wOWen7 fs here the
reason Why. while all parts OF the body
have shared in the cancer increase. the
rate for skin cancer has been much
higher than f0r the internal organs7 Is
fHIF the reason why there has been a 80
per cent Increase In the mortality from
Shin cancer iu fho last ton years7 d. this
tig reason why. although ! have stated
That cancer .aa been 90 disease Of middle
Ii'e. "a great many cancers are now found
in women az young AZ eighteen yearsg