Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-23

making myself conspicuous as an
alarmst; but the horror of the stu
alton with regard to cancer has over
come me to the extent that any dellca-
cy of feeling that l might otherwise
have N that connection has been en-
tirely overcome"
SO declared DR.. w. w. Fenne!l, the
well known head of the Fennell In
firmary al Rock Hill, TO Views and
Interviews Wednesday. The declara-
ton was made in connection with an
address that was recently delivered by
DR.. Wesley Long at Winthrop college,
the manuscript of which DIR. Fennell
was submitting for publication. The
doctor has been making especial and
particular study of cancer for num-
Der of years past, and he is easily the
leading authority on the subject in the
southeastern part of the country.
THE medical profession has made
considerable progress in the study of
cancer during the past dozen years or
much more progress than the public
has any idea of; but now there is need
to wake up the public to a sense OF Its
danger in this regard, for after all the
most important requisition to the sue
cessfuI handling of the situation is
proper educational work"
I'VE have done lot during the past
few wears toward the contro', if not
the eradication Of tuberculosis. Every
mature man and woman in this cOun-
try of reasonable intelligence is aware
that the ravages of tuberculosis are
not nearly so terrible as they were
ONLY q few years back. What has been
accomplished has been accomplished
largely through educational work. Peo-
pie have been brought to realize how
essential is plenty of fresh air, the
necessity of being careful with sputum
and the like, and to exercise various
other precautions. tuberculosis has
not disappeared to be sure; but 1t is
certainly not quite so common as IL
was.
For hundreds Of years the world
understood the deadly nature Of yellow
fever without any definite idea of the
cause of it except that it would not
exist in high attitudes or ATTITUDES and
it always disappeared with frost. II
was commonly believed that frost killed
the germs. Not until late in our own
generation was it clearly established
that the disease was transmitted and
communicated by particular kind OF
mosquito and it was this mosquito in
stead of the yellow fever that was kill
ed by frost. Now we stamp out the
yellow fever by killing the mosquito
by other means.
For so long back that it is difficult
to establish the beginning, the best in
te'liGencc of our civilization was firm
~ convinced that malaria was due
sole'y to poisonous atmosphere. The
word malaria comes from two words
NAL and aria meaning hard air
Within our own generation it has been
definitely established that the air has
nothing whatever to do with the
disease-that it is transmitted solely
by mosquitoes, and we know now that
the way to avoid malaria is to protect
ourselves against mosquitoes.
FORMERLY we thought so strongly
that we were dead sure of il that we
got typhoid only from drinking water
During the Spanish American war II
was proved absolutely that typhoid is
also carried by the common house fly.
I'VE now have a serum that is
;pccific for typhoid a serum that mas
robbed diphtheria of its tcrrOrs.
serum that has leS%cnCd the mortality
from spinal meningitis, vaccination
against smallpox, and we are now able
TO cone with many other ScOurGes be-
fore which we were formerly helpless.
But of all the diseases | have men
toned cancer is the most inSldlOus ana
most deadly. The medical profession
has learned more about cancer within
the past fifteen or twenty years than
during all time previous; but it is
fact. terrible fact that the public at
large knows less about cancer than
il knows about any of the other
diseases. and herein lies the trouble II
people could only be made to realize
the truth as to cancer so they coulo
be brought to take proper precautions
i'm time. the ravageS of this disease
would he tremendously reduced.
"Rcgardlcss of the popular concep-
ton of the matter, | say without heSi-
tation or qualification that more pe"-
plc are suffering from cancer incipient
and developed. than from any other
disease. and that also cancer causes
more Deaths
HICKORY BATHERS