A FAMOUS SURGEON.
AUTHOR OF MANY SLOGANS. “EAT AND FEAR NOT.” LONDON, May 29. Sir James Cantlie, the well-known surgeon and founder of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, who died recently, claimed to have suffered a record number of illnesses, one of which resulted in the loss of an eye. Recently he held classes for “physical jerks” for men over 40. The deceased invented many medical slogans, such as “Tight hats cause baldness,” “Eat and fear not.” He advocated abstention from dairy produce, believing that eggs were infected with cancer and consumption. He said that neglected teeth and trades unions were two main causes of physical degeneracy. . • Sir James rose at four o’clock in the morning and performed Highland dances for exercise. He said that “Moses, M.D.,” had forestalled the scientific discovery that rats carried plague. Woman knew that rats carried the disease because God gave her an instictive abhorrence of them. Therefore she screamed when she saw a rat.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 165, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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163A FAMOUS SURGEON. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 165, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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