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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI MEDICAL. ASPECTS OF CANCEB In his recent president's address before the American Surgical Association, Dr. William J. Mayo spoke in regard to the internal causation of cancer in a manner which should attract serious attention. Few have had a wider acquaintance with the surgical aspects of the disease than he, and few others know better than he how relatively impotent surgical procedures are to stay the steadily increasing mortality from cancer, which now claims about 90 per cent. of those whom it once attacks. As a text for what I have to say, I want to quote a few of his words, as they confirm so strongly the views I have held and by which I have practised for thirty yearsand more, with results which I have seldom, if ever, had cause to regret. ' Address before the Kbode Island Medical Society, March 4, 1915. Speaking of the prophylaxis of cancer, mainly from its surgical aspects in regard to early operation, Dr. Mayo says: Cancer of the stomach forms nearly one-third of all cancers of the human body. So far as I know this is not true of the lower animals, nor of uncivilized man. ... Is it not possible, therefore, that there is something in the habits of civilized man, in the cooking or other preparation of his food, which acts to produce the precancer- ous condition? . . . Within the last 100 years four times as much meat is taken as before that time. If flesh foods are not fully broken up, decomposition results and active poisons are thrown into an organ not intended for their reception and which has not had time to adapt itself to the new function.'' In conclusion he says:'' Where cancer in the human is frequent, a close study of the habits of civilized man as contrasted with primitive races and loweranimals, where similar lesions are conspicuously r...
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