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SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 28. i 925
Dr. Mayo, Famous Surgeon Predicts New Medical 1 riumps
MAYO THINKS
‘IOO YEARS OF
LIFE IS NEAR’
The world’s Most Famous Sur
geon Gives Reason for Believ
ing We Will Live Longer
NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 28.
The average length of human life
will soon b e 100 years..
Cancer will eventually be entirely
under the control of medical science.
Tuberculosis will be a rar,e ail
ment.
Good health will be the heritage
of every person in America.
These are the oustanding declara
tions in an interview given exclusive
ly to NEA Service by Dr. William
Mayo, world famous surgeon, who
with his brother, conducts the great
clinic that has made the little town
of Rochester, Minn., known through
out the earth.
He gave this interview seated on
the deck of the yacht in which he has
been cruising the Mississippi.
“Modern medicine,” he began,
“that in the past forty years has
given humanity a life-span increase
from an average of forty-two years
to fifty-eight years, is on the thres
hold of discoveries compared to
which all the marvels of medicine
that have gone before are merest
child’s play.
“Medicine wil conquer the infirm
ities of age, and a normal life expect
ancy of 100 years is by no means a
fantastic dream.
“Henry of Navarre said that he
wanted to see every peasant in
France have a chicken in the pot. A
ruler of his power today would
change that prescription and want to
see health in every home in his realm
And it is possible.
“America’s physicians and surg
eons are wide awake and alert in
their battle for public health. They
know what they are doing and are
becoming more expert day by day.
Less and less the public is accepting
disease and death as divine visita
tions and will of God. It was only
through our own indiscretions that
disease has shortened life. The doc
tors are making us get back to the
teachings of the Bible.”
The famous physician leaned for-
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Dr. Wiliam Mayo comes of a fam ly that apparently think the prac
tice of medicine is the only profess on worth following.
Since 1627 all of his direct ancestors have been doctors. His broth
er is a doctor. His daughters have married doctors. His nephews are doc
tors, and all of his nieces have married doctors.
“The idea of being anything else has never even dawned on us,” Dr.
Mayo admits with a laugh. “Just as circus babies eighteen n onths old
are taught to turn somersaults.and learn to stand on the backs of horses
almost before they can walk, so the Mayos, from father to son. have done
their teething on a volume of anatomy or physiology.”
ward in his chair and almost shout
ed the word “Cancer!”
“I know that it can be cured now
in its earlier stages, and it is often
being cured by surgery after the ear
ly stages are past,” he said.
“We are getting after cancer.
More and more often we are con
quering it. We have not succeeded
entirely yet, but some day, maybe
not in my time, we will succeed.
“Medicine is divided into two
camps on cancer. One camp believes
that cancer comes to the human
body from the outside. The other
camp works on the belief that cancer
is produced inside the human body.
“I would not say that I am com
pletely allied to either camp. Cancer
is a worldwide problem, and we know
this, at least—that it comes in many
cases from irritations. z
“The Chinese, for example, shave
tneir heads vim rough razors. Can
cer of the scalp is extraordinarily
prevalent in China.
“Go to Australia. There, where
sand is blown into the face by hot
wind under a blazing sun, you will
find cancer of the face prevalent.
“Go further into the orient, into
Kashmir, where the men climb in a
couple of days from hot* damp val
leys to the piercing cold of the high
mountain passes, and you find them
wearing basket-like arrangements
strapped about the abdomen and con
there was a smokers’ cancer on the
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DR. WILLIAM MAYO
lower abdomen is extremely preval
ent there.
“Locomotive engineers who sit
year after year with one leg close to
the firebox show a strong tendency
ot develop cancer of the shin. Once
•there was a smokkers’ cancer on the
lips and tongue, particularly among
smokers of the old-fashioned clay
pipe. But clay pipes are so little
| used now that we have one case of
I Smoker’s cancer where we used to
have a hundred.
I “So we find that something always
goes 'ahea3 of cancer, seemingly.
And modern medicine is working
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against cancer from both aides and is
closing in on it.
“And in tuberculosis, public edu
cation in sanitat’ - '-- health her
done wonders. Wc know that we tre
getting rid of tuberculosis by stamp
ing out the conditions th.,t 1 ring it.
And we are checking cancer by stop
ping it before it is cancer.
“I lay it down as an absolute rule
that every human being, from earl
iest childhood, should go to a doctor
for a complete and thorougn exam
ination once a year, at the very least
If humanity did that there is no way
of estimating the human lives Hat
would be saved uul lengthened.
“The newspapers can help to an
extraordinary degree, Pitiless pub
licity for all fakers and quacks is
humanity’s only protection against
the evils they bring.”
Then Dr. Mayo turned to prohi
bition. He explained that lack of
data prevented him from saying what
part of America’s improvement in
general health is due to prohibition,
and declared:
“It was pure water that made pro
hibition in America, not any moral
issue or political policy. I was in
Vienna when that city first got pure
drinking water, brought down to the
city from the mountain springs. The
Viennese suddenly learned that they
could drink water without fear of
sickness or death. In ten years after
that the consumption of wines and
beers in Vienna encreased 40 per
cent.
“National prohibition is not a
failure. Prohibition, as it now exists
in America is only a process of edu
cating the American people to the
need of prohibition, and an experi
nent leading to the institution of an
established means of governmental
control over intoxicating liquors.
“Something will soon be done to
regulate properly this great natlon
at problem. The time will come
soon when a real method of sensible
control and regulation which will be
fair and just will be adopted.
“The American people are begin
ning to realize that something must
be done. That is precisely the pur
pose of prohibition as we have it to
day. It is working toward an end,
a good end, and for that reason I
cannot feel that it is a failure.
Dr. Mayo added that his clinic was
receiving fewer cases of alcoholism
than in pre-prohibition days, and that
surgical cases do not include as many
instances of lowered resistance due
to alcolohlism as in former years.
The famous surgeon then took oc
casion to defend modern youth and
the “jazz age,” and scoffed at the 1
notion that conditions among young
people are worse than when he was
a boy.
“If anything, they are better,” he
said. “Youth is more sophisticated;
young people know more of evil and
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for that very reason are better equip
ped to face the problems of life.
“I am thoroughly in favor of short
skirts. I hope never again to see the
return of the day when woman’s
skirts dragged on the ground and
I collected all the dust and dirt of the
streets. And if a woman wants to
bob her hair she should do so, it is
cleaner and more healthful.”
Here the interviewer put a ques
tion.
“Dr. Mayo,” he asked, “you’vev
saved lives. You’re in the work you
love. You’ve had success, profes
sionally and financially. If you
could have your wish—any wish you
might make—what would it be?”
The physician smiled gently.
“If I had my wish,” he replied
I’d be a young doctor juts starting
out again. Or, better yet, a fresh
man at medical school.
“It is wonderful to contemplate
the future of medicine. With hu
mility and an open mind, i;' our doc
tors work hard and take nothing for
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i in as few of us have ever dared to
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“And I wish that I was young
! again and in the ranks and starting
I life all over to work with them to
! do-it.”
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Mrs. George Dozier and ,wo sons
Hugh and Robert were shoppers in
Americus Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gaston and
children, Otis, Louise and Ruth were
visitors in Americus Saturday after
noon.
. Mrs. M. W. Bell and her children
Eliza and Mildred, Mrs. Gladys Wo
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children, Johnnie, Flora, Samuel and
Glenn enjoyed the cane grinding
very much Tuesday night at Mr.
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Miss Willie Anderson Buchanan
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i whipped cream peaches and cakes.
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