Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-10-13
SAYS NO SPECIFIC CURE FOR
CANCER IS KNOWN TO SCIENCE


delphia, retiring president OF the
American Medical Association, said in
a short talk.
Cancer of the lip is most prevalent
in ireland, and is due to the heat and
pressure of shortstemmed pipes COM
monty used,' said DR.. Rodman. ut
is also believed that cigarets are more
harmful than cigars because they are
smoked shorter and the heat irritateS
the lip.
approximately per cent of the
known cases of gall stones result in
cancer. Afflicted persons fear opera
tions for gall stones, but statistics
show that less than One-half per cent
die of the operations, while the deaths
from cancer resulting from gall stones
is eight times as great"
LOrenz BlameS Disease.
Twenty-Five per cent of the children
in the home for feeble minded at Chip
pewa Falls are thare as the result OF
diseases of parents.
Thirteen per cent of the inmates Of
the insane asylums of the state are
Ten per cent of the prisoners in the
Waupun state prison are afflicted with
the same disease.
Nine per cent of the boys and young
men, ranging in age from Is to Fl
years of age, show prevalence of the
disease.
DIR. w. F. Lorenz, mendoza hospital,
=, ol,ocoo Of tbo VyiCo0pciY1 Dcu0hiar-
trio institute which is making the free
Wasserman tests under the new state
law, made these statements before the
medical society in the afternoon ses-
sion.
Jermain Heads Society.
DR.. L. F. Jermain, dean of Marqu cite
Medical college, was elected president
of the society. The other officers Of
the society, elected are:
First vice-president, Dr.. M. r. Will
kins, Oconomowoc; second vice-presi-
dent, DR.. n F. Hosmer, Ashland; third
vice-president, DR.. r. w. Blumenthal,
Milwaukee; secretary, DR.. Rock Sley-
ster, Waupun; treasurer, DR.. S. s..
Hall, Ripon.
DR.. G.. Windesheim of Kenosha was
named delegate to the national legis-
lative council of the American Medi-
cal association in Chicago in January
DR.. T. H. Hay of Stevens Point was
named delegate to the American Medi-
cal association convention with DR..
Sleyster as alternate; DR.. A. j. Patek,
Milwaukee, is delegate to the council
of medical education in Chicago in
January.
Committees Are Named.
The following COMMITTEES were
named:
Health and public instruction-Drs.
John M. Beffel, Milwaukee; Edward
Evans, Lacrosse, and w. F. Zierath,
ShebOygan.
Education-Drs. L. F. Jermain, G. v.
Van de Erne, Milwaukee, and DR.. c.
K Bardeen, Madison.
DR.. Rodman of Philadelphia, presi-
dent of the American Medical society,
present at the afternoon session, ex-
planned the duties of the new nation
al board of medical examiners through
which a general reciprocity system
for physicians who wish to transfer
from one state to another, will be es
tablished
Prof. Lewellyn F. Barker of Johns
Hopkins university, Baltimore, who
spoke on Disorders of Internal Secre-
tions," explained by number OF Ian
tern slides how certain secretions are
responsible for abnormalities in peo-
pie.
DIR. Schiller Talks.
DR.. Joseph Schiller of Milwaukee
spoke on '"The Schick Reaction in Mil
waukee Isolation Hospital Work"
DR.. H. P. Greeley of Waukesha,
spoke on Focal Infections and Their
Relation to Diabetes" Others who
spoke at the morning session were
Drs. M. L. Wilkinson of OconomowOc
and ]. W. Fischer of Milwaukee.
How mice have been used at the
University of Chicago in determining
the origin and heredity of cancer was
explained by DR.. H. Glidden Mells.
Vivisection was defended by DR.. F.
T. Murphy of the Washington univer
sity of st. Louis.
DR.. T. w. Nuzum, of GAINESVILLE
spoke on Gastric and Duodenal Ul-
Ger in the New Born; DR.. F. V. Mar
shall of Appleton on Cancer of the
Lip" and DR.. William E. Ground of
Superior on re-Cancer-LesiOns.-
Milwaukee Free Press.