The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-13
No Physician Has Good
Word For John
BarleycOrn
KNOWN ONLY AS
CELL DESTROYER
Booze Raped From
Pulpit AS Conducive
to Cancer

alcohol today has no friends IN
scientific circles
This disavowal OF old John Bar
leycorn" as friend Of the medical
profession was made, Monday morn.
ing. by Or Frederick r Green, OF
Chicago. secretary OF the council on
health and public instruction OF the
American Medical association.
There is no physician who will
speak friendly word for alcoholic
liquor. either 10 be used as medI-
cal substance or as a beverage" he
said. and scientific men now are
raanimous in the opinion that it is
harmful TO the human body
AT one time, within the past 10
or IL years. there was belief that
alcoholic liquor, taken in small
quantities. was remedial I'm some
cases, or at least was not harmful
This opinion has changed, and TO.
day booze" IS recognized generally
throughout the medical profession.
not only as being not remedy. but
az being a poisouer OF the system.
a cell destroyer. and n dcteriorant
10 efficiency
This realization that the flowing
bowl and It's CHEEKY effects pro
duces results not 80 cheerful in the
long run has done much to advance
the prohibition idea Also II has
given iupetus 10 the widespread
efficiency efforts Of great corpora,
,ons. railroads. manufacturers and
other employers. who have come 20
n realization Of the fact that liquor
in,crferes with the action OF tho
brain, nerve and muscle
~ Is largely because Of this now
. prevalent knowledge OF the evil OF
liquor that great railroads refuse
10 accept drinkers. even those who
imbibe moderately, as responsible
men in whose charge they may place
the lives OF passengers and the
handling of their valuable freight
and rolling stock"
DR.. Green said that within the
ranks OF the medical men them.
selves. there was noticeable
marked change in regard 10 drink
ing Where Il had been customary
for the physicians TO indulge in an
occasional drink OF beer or liquor,
particularly when assembled for so.
cial purposes. OF late II has been
remarked that this practice has well
nigh died out.
The question of liquor drinking.
he said. was not looked upon by the
medical men from moral or social
point OF view, but merely from a
scientific one: the results OF their
research. studies and Investigations,
particularly In late years. finally
having brought the majority 10 the
belief that not only is there no good
In booze" bat there Is tremendous
harm in It from the point of view
OF health
Cut down your alcohol drinking
and decrease your risk Of dying
from cancer.
This was the advice given by Or.
w. W Grant, OF Denver, when he
spoke In the Episcopal church of
the Epiphany. Cadillac and Kerche-
val.aves.. Sunday morning
we don't know exactly what
causes cancer and one OF the IN.
q. 10 ha AnA
mite symptoms OF the disease are
not evident sometimes until three
or four weeks before death occurs.
but We can take certain precautions
now" said DIT Grant
DO you know that COO 900 per.
sons de annually in this country
from preventable Diseases" he
asked Fourteen men and eight
women out Of every hundred who
pass beyond after reaching IS year
OF age die from cancer We find no
definite symptoms of cancer In It's
early stage. but we do know that
an ulcerous condition always pre-.
cedes. Treatment OF these ulcers
will ward of the cancer.
Among men cancer OF the mouth,
lip and tongue are frequent. Seldom
Is a case Of this sort found among
women This leads me 10 believe
that drinking alcoholi1 beverages
as we'll as using tohgcco are partly
responsible We don't find cancer
among the youth of the land. The
constant holding OF the pipe or Gig.
arctic between the lips brings on
superheated condition favorable
to cancerous growth We should
keep tho mouth clean. jagged
tissue caused by catching the tongue
in a broken tooth may cause cancer
of the tongue.
But when people say there Ia no
cure for cancer, they do not speaF
the truth, or else pervert H. I'm III
earlier stages cancer can be- cured
by the use Of the knife, and radium
and the X.ray are also available
The latter methods are effective In
'he majority OF cases, however, to