The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1921-11-02

molcs and warts should be removed
before they begin to grow, together
with the whole thickness of the skin.
To tie q wOman's long hair around
them is the very worst thing to do.
1t only stimulates them to grow more
rapidly.
Appalling Statistics
The deaths from cancer are continu-
ally increasing, and have reached
most alarming total. In the World
War, from April, 1917, to July, 1919,
76,433 of our gallant soldiers lost their
lives by wounds and disease. In the
same length of time, about 100000 Of
our population died from cancer
over 100000 more than the total mill
tary deaths. OF our total annual
deaths of persons over forty years Of
age, one person in every ten dies of
cancer. OF all deaths among women
over forty, one out Of every eight is
caused by cancer. Do not these
figures startlc you, my reader? Is
it not all-important that you should
recognize red flag of "danger," when
you discover the first recognizable
sign of possible cancer--a "lump"
anywhere, or an abnormal discharge
of blood?
"What is the cause of canccr?" you
ask; "and why aren't you busy find
ing it," | answer that no one prob
lem of disease is being attacked as is
the cause of cancer. If we find the
cause, we will be at the halfway
house on the road to prevention or
cure.
There are special laboratories of re-
search on cancer alone in Boston, New
York City, Buffalo, London, Paris,
Heidelberg, and other cities, and also
ont q few personal investigators in
other places, all laboring to discover
the cause. and how to prevent cancer
and thus to avoid the dreadful alter
native of a surgical operation.
The problem has been attacked from
microscopical, the chemical, the biolo-
gical, and the experimental side. We
have learned a great deal; for instance
that cancer is always a strictly local
disease at the beginning, so that, if
you remove this small lump early
enough, cure is almost certain. If you
wait, the disease spreads by the ah-
sorhcnt vessels and the blood vessels
to the neighboring glands (under the
jaw, in the armpit or the groin, or in
internal glandS) on to distant parts,
and then the case is hopeless for cure.
All we can do is palliatc. Early op-
GRAFTON before the disease has thus
spread is the sine qua non for sue
cess. -.
Ultimate Success Certain
The X-rays and radium are being
very extensively experimental with,
and most hopefully in certain forms
of cancer. 1t is with this in view that
The fine women of America presented
Naamc Curic with one gram (15
grains) Of ramm, costing one hundre,,
thousand dollars. | have personally
known of some remarkable cures by
the X-rays and radium. But they
should be used only by experts, or they
may do irrcparablc damage. Even if
they do no damage, in case they do
not cnrc, their uSa not seldom delays
operation until t is too late
We have also learned by these
laboratories Of research that this,
that, and the other line Of research is
not the true road to the discovery OF
the cause. Thus, by exclusion, we are
gradually limiting our researches to
the methods which give promise Of
pOSsiEl" success.
| feel as certain of our ultimate
success as ] do of my own existence
| am cxpcctant, hopeful, and impatient
fer that glorious day to come 1t will
most likely come like thcI in the
night = some lonely, patirrt, persist
cnt worker Then, indeed, after il
has been tested and found true, may
we chant a re Dcum--and turn our
energies to the solution Of the many
other problems in medicine.
Above everything else not to do, |
urge that none Of the so-callcd Can
Ger cures" be used. ! have seen the
damage done by many of them, and
the happy time when early operation
might almost certainly have cured has
gone by, and again "Too late" is the