MARRIAGE AND CANCER.
MATERNITY A PREVENTIVE.
THE REASONS ADDUCED.
The cable in yesterday's "Star," stating that Sir George Newman, chief medical officer to the British Ministry of Health, declared marriage and childbearing, instead of favouring cancer in women, were actually preventives was to-day brought under the notice of an Auckland medical authority. "Quite true," said the doctor. "Marriage and child-bearing are woman's natural functions, calling into play the organs of generation and lactation. Deprived of their natural functions, these organs are robbed of their true physiological development, become poorly nourished, and are liable to the onset of cancer. Women who are in this way deprived of the functions of sex are physiologically stifled, and Nature is cheated. Nature almost inevitably has her revenge, in some form, or another, and cancer in women is often one form of revenge."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 26 February 1926, Page 8
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