CANCER.
A MEDICAL RIDDLE
QUESTION OF HOUSE CONTAGION
("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Services.) Received 5.30 p.m., April 6. ' LONDON, April 6. The liability to acquire icancer by living in a house-previously occupied bjiiz, caiaoer sufferer constitutes the , gravest existing medical riddle. The recurrence of cancer in the same blockp of buildings is generally attributed to coincidence, but a more thorough investigation is urged. The cage of a cancerous mouse was-placed in a laboratory - into which- uncleansed ,mice,.were jn- - #fter ,washMg''tne^eage the-pant 'remained' arid frequent disinfections were ■J. required to remove it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20050, 7 April 1914, Page 5
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91CANCER. Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20050, 7 April 1914, Page 5
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