Arizona republican., 1921-11-05

HE Ah1AOIN A telescope with which we can see all over the bladder. including the open fngs from the kidneys) the diagnosis of this disease is becoming more and more certain, and even if the blood happens to be due to something else, surely this does not make it less important to know its origin.
 T want to tell you about a disease which causes nearly as much or even as much misery to the patient, and quite as much sufferir 2 to the fam ily as cancer, and this disease is known as carniophobia-th fear of cancer. After all, The coward dies a thousand deaths. the brave man but one' and he who passes through life looking for trouble may find it in the end, but he will have had a long. wretched search for what he does not wish to discover. You have done your part when you insist upon a careful physical examination, if you fear or suspect cancer. You are doing altogether too much if you in sist upon an examination or two every day or two"
 '.The following points should be es- peciaIly remembered:
 
 always starts as a local affair. Hence it can always be cured by removal if discovered and treated early enough.
 Cancer in the beginning may cause no pain or other symptoms of ill health.
 Cancer is probably not hereditary. Cancer is not contagious, in the
 usual sense of the word.
 "The cancer patient must learn to seek treatment as promptly as pa l tient with appendicitis. and by so do- l ing can obtain a complete cure from the disease.
 Cancer is, unfortunately, a com
 mon disease. More than 90.000 per
 sons succumb every year in our great l country In contrast with tubercu- l losis-a disease which may attack us | at any ageAcancer nearly always l appears after full adult life. Thai l means that about S5 per cent of these deaths aecur at ages of more thar i 45 years. So just when you are fret from the first struggle for success and are ready to take things a little easier than you did: when the boy: 1 and girls are growing up, and vol l don't have to know just exactly how ] much change you have in you . l disease appears, and takes a toll O l one death out of every ten deaths 1 Among women the proportion ii l about one in eight against one il 1 every fourteen men within this so called cancer age Between the age l of 35 and 45, three times as man, l women as men die of cancer, and be 1 tween 45 and 55. twice as many. 1 For reasons which it is difficul to make perfectly clear, it appear | that the death rate from cancer il
 the United States has risen iron l 62.9 per 1000 population in 1900 t I S1.6 in 1917. Some investigators be 1 Heye that this apparent increase i
 due in part to more frequent recog milton of the disease. It is sufficient l 1y disquieting to know that there i
 any suspicion of increase in the nor
 tality from this dreaded malad, 1 when so much has been done to i'm l prove public health conditions. Bu
 in contrast with the increase in can
 cer there is also the undoubted fac
 that many more persons are cured o | this trouble than ever before I
 would indeed be hard if we did no
 have something to show for all tn
 effort which has been applied to tn
 study of cancer, and if the percent
 age of cures will only increase, tn percentage of deaths is bound to fal
 Some years ago a group of emf nent physicians and lay people go | together and decided that they woul form the Amercian Society for tn Control of Cancer. The society trie
 to reach as many sa possible throug
 all the agencies at it's command, an
 to reach as many as possible throug through the medical societies. It trie f0 nh health, insurance companies, wonl
 en's clubs, and other agencies and i endeavoring to bring to the peopl the message of hope that cancer l curable in a majority of cases treated early, These facts are bein ! established by the work of researc laboratories and hospitals and tn improving statistics of clinics, insur anee companies and public authori ties.n
 Dr. D. D. Northrup gave a shor
 talk on the fourth principle of tn Rotary code of ethics: ITO hold tha the exchange of my gods, my servic and my ideas for profit is legitimat and ethical. provided that all partie in the exchange are benefited there by''
 An interesting feature of the pro gram was a service talk by Dr. r C. Fowler. Up until recently. he sait dentists had been accustomed t treating and saving all teeth possibl and felt satisfied with their worl Then came the X-Ray and upset a their previous ideas, examinatio showing that many of the teet treated were diseased; that they ha I bad effect on the health of the per s son. It is now conceded, he declare, that many of the ills of men are du to bad teeth.
 Dentists therefore have ceased { treat all teeth. Dr. Fowler declare, and extracted many which they for merly attempted to save. Cleanliness, Dr. Fowler urged, the only way to prevent decaye teeth. A clean tooth cannot deca, he said. He said that cleanliness ( the teeth should be constantly urge and practiced at home and at tt schools.
 Mrs. Castleton sang two songs de lightfully