New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-11-28
AVERAGE LIFE 100
SOON, MAYO SAYS
Famous Surgeon Says Century
Will Be Normal Existence
BY NEA Service

! by y Is-A p'l NICc
New orleans, La, Nov. 2S.--The
average length of human life will
soon be 100 years,
Cancer will eventually be entirely
under the control of medical
science
Tuberculosis will be a rare all
mcnt
Good health Will be the heritage
Of every person in America.
These are the Outstanding dcclara-
lions in an interview given exclu-
sively to NEA Service by DR.. Will
| liam Mayo, world famous surgeon,
who. with his brother. conducts the
great clinic that has made the lit
tie town of Rochester, Mimi,
known throughout the earth.
He gave this interview seated
on the deck of the yacht in which
he has been cruising the Mississippi.
"Modcrn medicine" he began.
that in the past 40 years has given
, humanity life-span increase from
an average of AZ years 20 IS years,
is on the threshold of discoveries
compared to which all the marvels
/ OF medicine that have gone before
.are merest child's play
Average Man VIII Live 100 Years
"Mcdicine will conquer the mfr
mites of age, and a normal life
| CXpcctancy Of 100 years is by no
means a fantastic dream.
Henry of Navarro said that he
wanted to see every peasant in
France have a chicken in the pot
! A ruler of his power today would
Ichange that prescription and want
to see health in every home in his
realm. And it is possible.
"Amcrica's physicians and sur
gcons are wide awake and alert in
their battle for public health. They
know what they are doing and are
{ becoming more expert day by day.
LESS and less the public is accept
ing disease and death as divine
\isitations and the will Of God. II
was only through our own indiscre-
tions that disease has shortened
life. The doctors are making us
get back to the teachings of the
Bible"
The famous physician Leaned for
ward in his chair and almost
shouted the word "Cancer''
Il know that it can be cured
now in its earlier stages, and It is
often being cured by surgery after
the early stages are past" he said.
I'VE are geeting after cancer
More and more often We are con
uuering it. We have not succeeded
entirely yet, but some day, maybe
not in my time. We will succeed.
Cancer Question
"Ncdicine is divided into two
'Camps on cancer. One camp be-
Ilicves that cancer comes to the hui
man body from the outside. The
other camp works on the belief
THAT cancer is produced inside the
human body.
Il would not say that I am com
pIctclv allied to either camp. Can
.car is a Worldwide problem, and
we know this, at lcast-that it
comes in many cases from irrita-
tons.
The Chinese, for example
shave their heads with rough raz-
ors. Cancer of the scalp is extra
ordinarily prevalent in China.
eco TO Australia. There, where
sand is blown into the face by the
hot wind under a blazing sun, you
will lind cancer of the face prevail
cnt
go further into the orient, into
Kashmir, where the men CLIMB IN
Il couple Of days from hot, damI
valleys to the piercing cold OF tht
high mountain passes, and you hnu
them wearing baskct-like arrange
mcnt strapped about the abdomen
land containing hot charcoal. Can
Ger of the lower abdomen is en-
ItremcIy prevalent there.
"Iocomotive engineers who ST
wear after year with one leg close
to the firebox show strong ten
Idencv to develop cancer of the shin
IOnce there was a smokers cancer
on the lips and tongue, particulars!
Iornonr smokers of the old-fashioncc
Iclav pipes. But clay pipes are sc
uttlc used now that We have ont
case of smokers cancer where We
uscd to have a hundred.
so we find that something al
WAYS goes ahead of cancer. seem
iiug!v. And modern medicine Il
working against cancer from botf
sides and is closing in on it.
tuberculosis Vanishing
"And in tuberculosis, public edu
cation in sanitation and health ha!
done wonders We know that VIZ
are getting ride Of tuberculosis h!
staining out the conditions tina
bring it, And We are checking can
Ger by stopping it before 1t is can
Ger.
~ Law il down as an absolut,
rule that every human being, from
earliest childhood, should go to ;
doctor for a complete and thorough
examination once a year, at TIL
very least. If humanity did tina
there is no way of estimating TIL
human lives that would be savet
and heightened.
THE newspapers can help to al
extraordinary degree. Pitiless pub
lefty for all fakes and quacks i
humanity's only protection agains
the evils they bring"
Then DIR. Mayo turned to prohihi
ton. He explained that lack Of re
liable data prevented him from say