CANCER

Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 5

CANCER

CREMATION ADVOCATED MEDICAL WRITER’S ARGUMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 10. A writer in the British ‘Medical Journal ’ advocates i lio cremation of all persons dying from cancer. 110 argues that as cancer is caused by a germ which passes through a porcelain filter, it would surely pass through any soil and percolate downwards until deep water is contaminated.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CANCER CAUSED BY WORRY. That worry could ho a cause of cancer of the gullet was one of the points made by Dr I). Guisez, of Paris, in delivering the Semon lecture before the Royal Society of Medicine. It had, he said, been the experience of himself and his colleagues that psychic causes were assigned by patients in more than half the cases teen as having provided the origin of their trouble. Among these could be mentioned the loss of a near relative or the loss of money or position. Cancer of the throat had been noticed to occur with increasing frequency during or immediately after the war as a result of psychic strain. The gullet was exceptionally liable to be thrown into a state of spasm from emotional causes, and so to prevent the passage of food, which lodged in it and set up irritation, thus later firing rise to cancerous degeneration, t was rare for early cases of this form of cancer to bo seen by the doctor, because there was little pain or discomfort until the disease had reached an advanced stage.