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Author: Stephen Corrigan
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1924
Cancer research
After tuberculosis, cancer exacts the biggest toll of human life. The numbers of people cut down in their prime in Ireland by cancer are appalling.
In County Galway, particularly in the towns, the mortality is alarmingly high. Research work conducted by the most eminent physicians has yielded little that points a way to avoid and cure this most dreaded of all diseases.
It was therefor with real pleasure that we perused the valuable volume, Reminiscences of An Old Physician, by Dr. Robert Bell, superintendent of cancer research at the Battersea Anti-Vivisection Hospital, in which the veteran doctor not only holds out hope to sufferers, but unhesitatingly affirms that cancer is not only preventable, but can be cured without operation.
In passing, Dr. Bell calls attention to the fact that constipation exercises a most baneful effect on general health and is responsible to a great extent for the development of gout rheumatism, anaemia and to a marked degree, cancer, besides other blood affections of varying types.
Pictured: Writer and journalist Maeve Binchy pictured with the prizewinners in the Salerno Secondary School Literary Week short story competition on May 2, 1988. From left: Vicky Noonan, Newcastle, who won first prize in the Junior section, Laura Hogan, Knocknacarra, second prize winner, junior section, Maeve Binchy, Polly Nolan, Corcullen, who won first prize in the senior section, and Ann O’Halloran, Moycullen, who came second in the Senior section.
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