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"THE TRUTH ABOUT CANCER"

Interesting Address By Dr. Montgomery

In view of the fact that Hongkong is taking active par- ticipation in the British Empire Cancer Campaign, and that there is to be a street collection to-morrow for funds in aid of this very deserving” cause, the following, a talk given by Dr. J, H. Montgomery, at the Rotary Club some time ago."would be of interest:---`

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Cancer and the Publle

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Hong Kong was in real holiday mood for the last" three days and although the weather was not ex- actly conducive to comfort, the fact that we have so many at tractive beaches in the Colony, more than måde up for the intense heut. Bathing parties were the order of the day, while those who preferred to do so motored out to are Repulse Bay. Shek-O. Big Wave kid-Bay and Stanley where the beaches presented a gay spectacle, with in beach pyjama's and bathing costumes. Truly we saw ̈“fash- lons of 1934" in those places.

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"follow the horses" inclined to while lawn bowls enthusiasts took advantage of the long week-end. many were the exciting and

no further use to the body Mr. President and fellow Ronally removed chiefly by the tarians, not so very long ago Ineys. spoke to you on the subject of Practically all food materials the ladies showing off the latest

something enter the body by the mouth, pass eater about its physics, "source and ac- down the desophagus and tion. and its position to-day in the stomach. Here the proteins,

fats, salte regard to the treatment of Can-carbohydrates. cer.

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water are churned up and mixed with saliva and gastric juice and after a time is discharged into the small intestine where it is fur- ther acted on by other digestive

WHA

the felt

that the

compels us to express very guard- ed answers to such questions,

To-day I wish to speak on the subject of Cancer, and the title I have chosen for this address is one suggested by a book recently published by the British Empire Bulds and liquefied as far as pos-heads" that were fought off in . Cancer Campaign Council and i sible. In the stomach and small the different clubs.

from which I shall freely quote bowel most of the liquid portions Inquiries at the Royal Observa- as I proceed.

of this altered food are absorbed tory elicited the news If I were to ask the man in the into the lymphatics and small veins maximum temperature during the

whether . Street

the subject that permeate these parts, and holidays was registered on Sunday Cancer Interested him and, if so.

the soild portions are passed into when a reading of 89.6 degs. was why? the reply I should get would the large bowel where the remain-taken. depend largely on the age of the der of the liquid is absorbed and person asked. If young he would the solid residue passes to the low- answer, "I don't think about sucher bowel and is periodically ex- things. illness "does not come my pelled.

ray," If of middle age he would say he has no time to think of such things, he was to busy look. pro ing after his business and viding for his family. If, how ever, I asked the same question Every solid part of the body is à tissue, and the tissues vary in of a man or woman of later mid- dle age, the man would probably their nature. Thus we have brain answer, "Yes, I am much interest-tissue, ber tissue, kidney tissue

and muscle tissue. ed as so many of my friends and contemporaries have died of Can- cer." The woman would say, "I dare not think about it as so many women die of Cancer."

This I think fairly represents the attitude of mind; of the gen- eral public to the Cancer problem. and the object of this talk about Cancer is to interest those who are not interested, to satisfy the to know the person who wants truth, and to reasure as far possible the person who fears, and give a bird's eye view of the whole problem which is rapidly becom- ing the greatest health problem affecting the entire world.

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There are two terms when dis- cussing Cancer that are constant ly being used and which we must understand, viz. tissue and cell.

Tissue

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because

tissue. bone

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I have been asked to talk about them there is always a represent- Wines, I am afraid that it will notation of the same idea, the expres- be very interesting to the multitu- sion of the same universal feeling de in general, but I hope a very of gratitude towards the Giver of brief description may be of inter- that most marvellous gift-Wine, est to a larger number than I ima- Even long before the days of the Phoenicians the elvillaing intuen- gine at present.

Most people do not realise what ce of the viticulture was realised an interesting study Wine is, most and the policy of teaching the of us, without stopping to think people to plant and tend vines was how these came to be, or the skill. followed by the early Christian labour, and Romance that are all nüssionaries, so all the choicest wrapped up in the production. vineyards of France and Germany have even seen people drinking a retain to this day names recalling high quality wine as it it was a their ecclesiastical origin. I am

attempt to describe tankard of Beer proving that they afraid this chat would be too long

ave not the very least apprecia- I were to tion, or have given the slightest and go more fully into the steady prepetual interest thought to the wonderful nectar growth and

throughout centuries, in the art that they are insulting.

Wine is "par, excellence, the of viticulture. This subject' would

manufacture. food of the brain. This is as true prove, just as interesting as the ro-day as it was at the beginning description of the of the world's history, and as it to-day, of certain wines. "The ear- as been ever since, amongst allly wines were of a very raw and nations and in all climates. Long pungent nature and not compar. marvellous Wines at before the world we live in had able to the

en habitable, the vine flourished our disposal to-day.

I fancy It is not generally known and bore fruit, vine leaves, pips, and tendrils abound in all the ear- that China was once an immense and flourishing vineyard, and at llest strata of the earth's crust. Specimens abscribed to the terti-that time the home of refinement iry period, have been found in and of all the arts, but unfortun- such widely different parts of the ately the original Chinese "pussy- world, as Iceland, Champagne, Al- foots" gained power and, destroy- aska Rhone Valley. Devonshire, ed all the vineyards-poppy fields Japan, and Central Europe. This replaced them and optum killed set alone gives one food for most the artistic genius and unparallel- interesting thoughts, these spe- ed industry of a race which, un- cimens show grape pips in auch der the gentle influence of Wine, numbers and so compact a mass

had attained a high degree of that there can be no doubt that civilization at a very early date. prehistorie man did press and make Ever since, water drinking races a beverage out of the wild grapes have been, and still are, under the which he was able to domination of hard drinking and

of Wine more energetic races. by many

Is Cancer on the Increase* If we take the number of deaths from Cancer and from all causes over a series of years in Eng- land and Wales we find that from

in 1924 to 1928 one every 9 deaths recorded is certified as be- ing due to Cancer. In 1924, 23,099 males and 27:290 females in Eng- land and Wales died of Can-gather. The God

cér. a total of 50,380: In 1928

has

been known

these. though having certain fea-26,013 males and 30,240 females different names, but under all of tures in common, are essentially in England and Wales" died of different,

bralo. liver.

Cancer, a total of 56.253. This kidney, muscle and bene, differ in means that in the short period of 5 years, there is an actual increase structure and function.

Cell

each smaller than

cer if engrafted into the same or grow. another individual will not

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TALKING

of 5.884 deaths per year due to Experiments on animals, and par- the grape picking season, to hund- Cancer. Unfortunately, later sta- ticularly white mice, have shown

reds of men, women and children DX 358-THE LION AND ALBERT chosen conclusively that you can graft Reduced to their ultimate or or- tistics than those I have

each with a large basket, strapped to their backs, over-flowing with iginal elements all these tissues show this increase is going on. It Cancer cells from one animal to consist of minute bodies

must also be remembered that another and reproduce the ort- luscious fruit. When the trough cells, which are visible only when during the years in question Can-ginal cancer in the grafted animis Alled a number of bare legged cer was receiving more attenton als. Nor does it imply that dismen and women enter. it and highly magnified by the micros-

charges from Cancerbus ulcers dance and jump about to gay cope. Cells vary in size; roughly than ever before, the most exten-

are harmless. Such discharges do speaking a single cell, if magni-sive operations were undertaken

music of pipes, flutes and drums- until the whole trough or lagar ned 500 times, appears about the to eradicate the disease, and at not produce Cancer in

(which is its real name) is a mass size of a pin's head. A cell in its tempts were being made to get person, but they become infected simplest form is a spherical body the cases early. There is, how with the organisms of suppura- In order to know how the body with a dennite wall and semi-solid ever, one point we must remem- tion and these will cause pustules

is left for three or four days dur- Is altered in function and struc-contents in the middle of which ber, and that is, that during the or boils ture by disease, it is necessary to is suspended a smaker spherical years mentioned the population Cancer affecting the lip has

ing which the microscopic agents. that we never been known to affect the

which are to be found on all grape know its anatomy and physiology, body known as the nucleus. The was also increasing, so

Cancer other lip that is constantly in skins, begin their work. They at- that it is structure and function semi-solid contents of the cell may must correct the annual

There is other

tack the natural sugar which the under normal healthy conditions. contain special substances manu- mortality by the number of per- contact with it. I assume everyone knows the gen-factured by the cell such as mik sons living in that year in order evidence unnecessary to mention

and transforms this sugar into eral functions of the organs of droplets, pepsin granules, pigment to get the true state of affairs. II now, which proves Cancer definite-sunshine has stored in the grapes,

we take the same years and work ly is not contagious, and the fumi-

alcohol and carbonoc acid gas. The the body, how food must be sup- granules, etc. The nucleus is the

of the cell, out the number of deaths per gation of a room and the bedding plied to them and waste mater important "element fal removed. The duty of supply- and the whole life of the cell de- million of the population from and clothing of a person who has alcohol remains in what was grape whilst the carbonic acid gas loses ing food materials is carried out pends on the nucleus, and also by Cancer, we find in 1924 that 1,297 dled from Cancer is carried out for juice but is now becoming wine,

itself in the air. by the blood vessels, and the term division of this nucleus multipli- people out of every million of the general cleanliness and sanitary

watercation of the ċell" is brought population died of Cancer, and in reasons, and not "food materials" includes oxygen and chemical substances about. The ucleus of a cell divides 1928 1,425 out of every inillion died Cancer itself minute quantities such as in a regular but complicated way. of Cancer, which shows a definite infectious.

further If we go stul

Is "Cancer Hereditary? Lime, Phosphorus, Vitamins, as and the Chromosomes forming the increase.

per This question has been the sub- well as the substances ordinarily nucleus separate, half gathering back, say to 1,900, only 800 understood as food, namely. Pro at the upper and half at the low-million died of Cancer as against ject of much triquity, specially as teins, as meat, fish. white of ess: er pole of the cell, and the cell almost 1600 in 1930. That rough- regards human beings, and m- Carbohydrates as sugar, bread,

then divides into 2 daughter cells, ly means that in 1930 almost twice portant experiments have been potato and Fats as butter, cream,

the original the number of people per million made on white mice, recording oil, etc. All these substances. are mother cell, but by absorption of of the population died from Can- their life histories to determine if carried in the blood by the Ar-food material brought by the blood cer as compared with the year possible the question of Inheritance the of Cancer. From a few original teries which lead from the heart they rapidly grow to. full size and 1900. We must remember form a tree-like series of bran- each is ready to divide again to generally improved health of the mice, breeding, and labreeding ches throughout the body and end form 4 new cells.

population in later years. This has been carried on for years and in a vast interlacing network of To what extent this process of improvement is represented by an the complete histories of many that a Committee decide whether Ane hair-like channels called division and subdivision goes de-increase expectation of life at all thousand descendants of the or- the new Wines shall be classified

of factors, ages.

but specially at younger ginal mice have been recorded. as Vintage Wines or not. The Capillaries, that permeate every pends on a number

has been learned Wine is usually bottled a little The Capliar-some of which are stili unknown, ages. In other words, a larger From this it part of the body. les, terminate in minute venules, but in part it depends on the na-proportion of the population rea- that there are two strains of more than two years after the and these small veins unite to ture of the cell. The skin, for ches the age at which Cancer is these mice, in one of these Can- Vintage and then it goes on slow-

WES formerty

cer occurs in every case, while in ly improving, the added Brandy form larger ones. ultimately example, is constantly being re commonest than forming very large veins that newed by the division of the deep- the case, and this would tend to members of the other strain not gradually losing its strength and enter the right side of the heart.est layers of its cells, whereas make the Increase more apparent one contracts Cancer through its "feeding upon some of the origin- al grape sugar left in the Wine, to renewed than actual

whole life. The heart supplies the power to nerve cells are never

Most. authorities. however, agree In man, however, the problem is combine with it and to form that keep the blood circulating and the Capillaries, the link between ar

that when all reasonable correc- quite different. In human affairs captivating and generous Wine we teries and veins, and the network

tions have been made for such such a condition of in-breeding all now as fine Vintage Port. Dur- for the distribution of the fluids

they become possibilities as I have just referred never occurs. The nearest ap- ing the years the wine is matur- to the body.

fattened, columnar, polyhedral or to, there still remains definite proach to it, is recorded in two ing the bottles are kept in dark- Waste products are removed from irregular in shape. In a few situs- evidence of an actual increase in isolated parishes, Gol and Hem-ness as far as possible. If the the body partly by the small veins tions the whole tissue is formed Cancer mortality at some sites of sedel in Norway. Here inter-mar Vintage lack the Bouquet, body or a diminution at riage is common, and yet a care- "quality" which are indispensable and partly by a system of dell of cells in contact with one an- the body and cate channels called lymphatics. other, in other situations groups others, and further, that the in-fal study, for 20 years of these in- if they are to last on their own crease mainly concerna the later termarried families of persons cerits for years to come and im- These lymphatics are independent of cells are separated from anatomically of the arteries and another by a supporting material decades of life from 40 years up- over 35 years of age, shows only proving as time goes on, they are veins, though they run in com-called connective tissue. This con-years upwards. There is also de- 18.2% for these familles, compar-stored in large casks and frequent

Wines, kept in reserve for that pany with them. The lymphatics nective tissue may be brots, car finite evidence for believing thated with 121% for the local popu- is realled with the better class are delicate hair-like, tubes com-tilaginous, bony or fatty Buch Cancer mortality is increasing in lation of the country.

The problem is obviously very purpose, from previous good years. municating with one, another by blood vessels, nerves and lympha- men, but in women bas been

dificult and complicated but They gradually improve in quality various tics as the tissue contains are stationary for some years past. cross branches and at

mora important theoretically than and finally become what we know points in their course they enter carried in strands of this connec- Is Cancer Contagious?

called tive tissue.

In the sense that Measles, practically, One of the best evidas Tawny Port-a Wine lighter in structures into special

Before passing to the discussion Diphtheria, Smallpox and other ences indicating heredity is of colour and in body,

Soll And Cilmates lymph glands. Healthy lymph glands vary in size from a pea to of special features of Cancer as a diseases are contagious, we can minor importance. If any, is the

scientific conception or

a small nut, but when affected by Cancer may become as big, as an orange. These glands are

particles from the

es-

after they have been once formed. Though typically cells are spheres. yet their form is often altered by pressure, so

that

one

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ELK a definitely say Cancer is not con- fact that most large Life InsurThe soil and climates of count- disease, there are certain general tagious. No known case has oc-ance Companies do not increase ries differ one from the other, so considerations that call for atten-curred in which the disease has the premium where one of the sentially alters separating solid tion. The lay public constantly been conveyed from one person proposer's parents has died of we have our different varieties of lymph that asks such questions as these:-is to another. The few examples in Cancer. It must, however, in all Wines The soil and climate of flows through them. The lymph Cancer on the increase? Is Can- which Cancer has been chserved fairness be said that the ides of Spain are eminetly suited to the channels or lymphatics finally cer hereditary and, Is Cancer in two members of a family, as in a hereditary factory is not improb culture of the vine, and Wine has

on. Borne a mother and

and a daughter who able and has, in fact, some evid. been made there from time imme- unite in forming 2 large lymphatic contagious? and so

her, being exence to support such a claim morial Spanish Wines were im ducts which enter the veins at times we can give definite answers has been nursing

days in small quantities. the root of the neck, and discharge, but in other instances no dogma plicable on the lines of coincid sil, it can be dismissed from our ported into England in mediseval

(Continued on Pare their contents into these veins tie statement can be made, and ence only. This does not mean minds without serious consequen- Such waste products that are of our lack of complete knowledge that portions of the original Can- cas,

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