CAUSE OF CANCER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 132, 25 November 1911, Page 8

CAUSE OF CANCER.

DOCTORS nvrTDK THAT DLSEASE IS XOT CATCHING. Sir William Cluircli. announced reppntlv at th" anmnl mectin,T of the Imperial C"iper UeeenHi Fund in England tint "flio i-nlalimisliin that cancer bears to fh" iiitial >n wVch it occurs is an indivi'iinl one." in "lain words that cancer fa "not catching" and "cancer houses" ca""ot exist. The reno-t n r Dr. Ttashford, the genernl s"iei'in*' , "dpnt of the fund, for tire '.'nip fill''- demonstrates that it i, ...„ n „,.. f„ , 110 ) cp statements of a disrt'*!ptpnrT? rat'im ahout the increase of ~„n „ n „ J,, „ pp „. q ]_ Cancer is caused by c'"-"-ve •••'•Uatip™ of "ny particular part of th" bp'V. T'--s in Tibet malignant •"•n—iiis of th" "hdnminal wall are caused lr- M,n pni| ; ino) wearing of vessels *l"> chewing of betel-nut occasions canCP*. Tn fVn" the n nre ver y liable to „-,,„,.,. ;„ jj,„ ~„]!„(•,_ j n women the is uil-"""-n, the reason being tint th" men holt, their rice when it i« »,.• w. i, P ; n „ c PTV prI first, while th" vn-«"Ti iiovo tn »•;>:<■. „ n d then the rice is T 'ie renni-f- of r)-, Bashford concludes •>"" i n. rr,Tiifortin!r iiragraph on the T, rn Vr~ of f.p"""'-. A considerable numhrr cf p<io"o of healing of spont"nno''<! mnl ; "»i'"if "rowths have now h-oM ph=f.r'-"il in h'Tman beings. The obinov-s le«fljTi«" *o natural euro in mice „*,„„„-, f n ,} nr „., ~„ altered' condition nt *h* "i»"cr eMic iTirl their contents T'i<'i"r *''"" on nn in the gennrnj pn«i,i!firm o- "rmsfUution of the aff.cotod animal. We thus have reason to, look with confidence to science for means 1 to elucidate the nature of these changes in the cancer cells, and thus discover curative, measures for oancer, the most ; fatal of maladies.