GENERAL DISEASES. 429 
GENERAL DISEASES. 
CANCER. 
There are few troubles that are so much dreaded as this 
one. Some people are made miserable by anticipating it 
when there is any kind of lump or swelling about them. 
This is foolish, as it will not help us even if we are going to 
become victims. ‘Those who are labouring under it and have 
the sentence of death upon them (which we all have), it 
requires strong faith to keep up their spirits. Some time ago 
we attended a lady who was dying of the disease. Her faith 
was bright, she told us that those gracious words of the apostle 
gave her comfort, ‘‘‘ Allthings work together for good to them 
that love God.’ (Rom. vin.) Even this cancer is working for 
my eternal good.” True, in the case of every believer in 
Jesus, although all cannot realise it as she did. But cancer ts 
a serious thing nevertheless. A short description will suffice 
to point out the principal forms of it. 
SCIRRHUS (CakciNoMA), 
Is a hard tumour which is generally developed in the glands. 
The mammary ones are the most liable to be affected. The 
size may be so small and the growth so slow that its 
existence may not be noticed for a Jong time. During this 
forming stage it has been checked and absorbed by pressure. 
A bandage must be made that, like a truss, will keep up a 
constant pressure, kept on from one to three months, when it 
will often disappear. This is far better than cutting out, 
which seldom effects a cure. 
SARCOMA 
Is another form of cancer. They appear first on the skin as 
rounded pea or bean-shaped nodules or pimples. The colour 
is bluish-black, brownish, or iron-gray. They gradually 
increase and run into each other, when they form various 
shaped flattened masses. Later on they growinto mushroom 
forms and then ulcerate. Another form is 
