CANARY ISLANDS

(27° 45’ 15’ N., 13° 30’ to 18° W.), group canic islands, belonging to Spain, N.W. coast of Africa, 62 miles from land. There are seven large islands, c. 2,808 sq. miles. Climate is lowest temperature, 48°, highest, rainfall moderate. Islands produce fons, fruits, bananas, etc., wine, tobacco, vegetables; all flour, machinery, timber, hardware, Chief town is Las Palmas, Canary. Great conical peak of 12,198 ft., is visible 140 miles Islands discovered by European lorers in XIV. cent.; were then abited by Berber people. Various expeditions were sent from time to whole archipelago being ultimately nexed by Spain. Pop. 420,000. American editor and educator. Yale, 1899; Ph.D., 1905. since 1908 in the Sheffield School. Editor Literary Review of York Evening Post since 1920. Was nected with British Ministry in mation from Jan. to Aug., 1918. ber of League of American Author of The Short Story, 1$92; Shart Storu in. Enalish. 1909: A Studu sewage, the Short ‘Story, 1913; College Sons an College Fathers, 1915; Our House, 191° by so Everyday Americans, 1920. malaria rate of CANCER, a disease characterized b of U.S. a morbid growth in the bodily ti ue, ay pearing usually as a tumor, which ma New be of very rapid growth, or develo co. It slowly, during a period of several year: Penn Cancer is, in fact, a species of tumo: north distinguishable from a harmle growtl miles or tumor, more by its results than b on an diagnosis. Even after it has bee view of excised from the body of the suffer private and subjected to microscopic exam in< institution, the most skilled anatomist ma Academy, remain uncertain as to the malignar Ontario character of the growth. There | asylum, probably no wide-spread disease whic It has is the subject of so much con trovers 1920, within the medical profe ion < cancer. On these points there is a fa: in the measure of agreement; it is not < 668 bacterial origin; it is not contagiou: above and it is not inherited. Its cause an length cure are the subject of violent dispute: mile. It Until quite recently it was generall The believed that a blow, or more especiall, is the @ local irritation, such as might | caused by a jagged pipe stem on th tongue, could produce a cancer. Tk pro vin tell i gent medical practitioner no realizes that while a cancer may appez to 29° at a point that has been subjected t of vol local irritation, there must be predi posing physical causes, or condition off main Investigations of the past few years hay La shown certain facts on which at leas Grand a plausible theory may be founded. ] has been found that there is a certai area, delightful; relation between prosperity ‘and th 95° F.; growth of the cancer death rate; the on where people suffer le from malnutr cochineal, tion and are more comfortably housec exported. there cancer increases; that it develox coal, le among people living under primitiv etc. conditions. Many advanced medic a Grand men therefore contend that cancer | Teneriffe, largely the result of the abuse of the bod exFrench surgeon, reports that he ha in found a distinct relation between const i Span. pation and cancer; that patients show in time, the first symptoms of po ible cance! an invariably suffer from const i pat i or and that where the constipation has bee rectified by means of diet, the cance (1878), symptoms have disappeared. There is Ph.B. at any rate, a growing belief that th Profe or removal of a malignant growth b; Scientific surgical means is not a cure, and t New inevitably the disease will manifest i con again, many even contending that a) In for operation only hastens the final fat a Mem result. Among a growing number ¢ Authors. modern medical men there is a firm bel ié¢ The that cancer, if not too far advanced mié of be cured by diet. and that it may f a uredly be prevented by that means. The most prominent American advocate of that means of cure, and the pioneer in that field in this country, is Dr. L. D. Bukley, the founder of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. Dr. Bukley established a special ward in his hospital where cancer patients were treated entirely by dietetics. In 1922 this ward was closed and Dr. Bukley resigned from his position on the hospital staff, on account of a dispute with his younger a ociates. It was not contended, however, that his method was a failure, but that patients in the advanced stages of the disease, too developed to be saved by dietetics, would neVerthele refuse to undergo operations, their only hope of escaping a fatal termination of the disease.