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Thesis of his Madrid address, explained Dr. Ewing, was that laymen and physicians are thinking too much about curing cancer, not enough about preventing it. Only 35% of cancer cases (skin, lip, mouth, breast, uterus) are readily curable. The rest are internal, inaccessible, difficult to treat. Despite advances in public education and curative and diagnostic technique, cancer mortality is nowhere decreasing...
Cancer "Cures." Good news to enemies of quack cancer "cures" were two court actions last week. In St. Louis three years ago Mrs. G. W. Haggard discovered a pea-sized lump in her right breast. A surgeon advised an immediate operation. More attractive was the prospect held out by Drs. John E. and Edward C. Westaver, father & son, who promised a cure with their salves at $2 a treatment. After nine months in their care Mrs. Haggard died. In St. Louis medical experts testified that dallying with the worthless Westaver nostrums had cost her a chance of recovery through proper...
Last winter Mrs. Cora Britten of Elliott. Md. became convinced that she had cancer of the breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...
...started another of her countless crusades, this time against poisonous cosmetics. In the Department of Agriculture's "chamber of horrors" she had discovered two photographs of a horribly blinded victim of "Lash Lure." Showing them to the ladies of the Press, she pressed the pictures to her breast and exclaimed: "I cannot bear to look at them...
...backstroke the team is well fortified with an intercollegiate champion, Captain Edward E. Stowell '34, and Charles N. Breed, Jr. '36, Freshman captain last year. Coming as experienced hands, too, are Anderson C. Dearing, Jr. '34, in breast-stroke; Charles L. Jack '35, best man last year in the "440"; Edward C. Devereux, Jr. '34, in the "220"; and Howard S. Bowen '35, in diving. In this last field there is some excellent Sophomore material...