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tion. It may be stated with assurance that all superficial
cancers are curable in the early stages, and many, in deeper
structures. The folly of trifling with nostrums and quacks
until the case is inoperable need only to be mentioned to be
condemned.
At the invitation of the British Empire Cancer Campaign
I have given numerous short addresses to Women's Institutes
and Co-operative Societies round this part of Middlesex,
and have been astonished at the keenness and desire for
further knowledge displayed by the members of those
Societies.
There is no doubt of the value of the research work of
the British Empire Cancer Campaign in co-ordinating the
details of the fight against cancer all over the world—
preventing overlapping. In one laboratory in England
cancer has been produced in rats and mice, and they have
been cured and rendered immune by a new special serum.
We are all impatient to hear of success with human
cases—it may be near or still a few years distant. In the
meantime every encouragement should be given to those
devoting their lives to this beneficent work.
It is known now, from the investigations of the Ministry
of Health, that cancer is not in the ordinary sense infectious
or contagious, is not necessarily incidental to middle life, is
not produced by diet per se—but can be induced by all forms
of chronic irritation, such as septic jagged teeth, hot clay
pipe, chronic sores, warts, discharges, constipation, etc. It
is not believed that one county or locality is more affected
than another.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.