SURGERY AND MEDICINE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 954, 22 October 1910, Page 10

SURGERY AND MEDICINE.

THE CUBE OF CANCER. : Sir,—Outside the passport to heaven, I think it will be conceded, by all that "good health" is the most valuable asset any man or woman can possess. The recent correspondence in your ooluinns concerning surgical operations is worthy the attention and earnest consideration of every reader of your paper, ' Personally, I stand' on; the side of thoso who believe that 1 man;r, and, indeed, most surgical operations, are not 'only needless, but are actually unwarranted, and quite often death-dealing interferences with God's highest handiwork—the human body. The doctor is, of the man who should know best, but from much reading during the past several years, I am fully satisfied that doctors, as a class, are men who no more know disease causation than tho average man of the street. "A strong statement to make," you will likely say, and I admit it. And, naturally, but" very few doctors will agree, with my words. Let mo tako just one' instance, and then give the names of a few' books well worth , reading. Tako cancor. Visit each of a dozen different doctors and- ask what causes cancer. Will tho answers agree, think'you? Only in ono way, and that is, that tho causo has not yet been discovered; and if doctors do not know tho cause of cancor, is it not fairly reasonable to say that treatment in, iho hands of thoso who do not know is merely guesswork? It is, of course, possible for cures to oventuato by guesswork,, but is it iKit more likely that the bulk of tho persons so treated will not bo cured? And this explains why operative 'surgery, never cures a case of'true cancor. ' ■ The Cancer Rojoarch Society is looking for a_ cancer germ, and when it locates him it will then look for a cure—and be just as long in finding the cure as it lias'been ill discovering the germ. Your, correspondent "Scotland" '' recently. stated an oft-repeated doctor's assertion that cancer can only bo cured ,by the knife. If "Scotland"; be p. doctor; and is leally in, earnest to do his best ,for ,those cancer sufferers who apply to him for relief and cure, will lio please read Dr. Robert Bells'books—'"Cancor, 1 Its' Causation and Curability Without Operation," "Cancor Without Operation." "Health at its Best Vorsus Canoer," "Tho Cancer Problem in a Nutshell." These books are not only worth readitigby doctors,: but are worth reading by all men 'and women., They will open the eyes of both innocence ana ignoranco. And I think I may fairly say that,'if "Scotland'.' reads them with an open mind lio will not only never submit to,operation should lie bo unfortuiiato enough to develop cancer in his later life, but that ho will know how easily 'cancer may. be avoided. . Cancer,.■ Mr. Editor, is a truly fearful disease, and only thoso who have watched by tho bedside of sufferers can imagine tho tremendous sufferings endured. I only wish all men. , and women.: could bo awakened to their health. responsibilities, and read those most valuable books by Dr. Bell. Dr. Bell shows (to my mind conclusively) that cancer, and other malignant diseases, are not only curable without operation, but that the disease is actually preventiblo.j Such, being true, could you not render your readers a more than ordinary servico by reading / tho books and then quoting largely from them. You regularly maintain, three columns 'or' moro to assist tho farmer in the good-health .upkeep of his cattle, horses, sheep, etc., and yet , tho . lives of human beings,, whoso •value"is immeasurable as compared to animals, aro hardly catered for. Cariccr is easily preventible, 'and prevention is bettor than cure, but operation for cancor only, hastons to the. grave thoso who have been unfortunate enough to develop it. If some Wellington bookseller would import a number of Dr. Bell's books, and' display them in his window, or advertise them in your papor, he, too, would bo rendering a servico to liis fellow men. Thanking you for tho uso of your spaoo. —I am, etc., PREVENTION. ■•' • ' /