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ISAIAH BOWMAN '05: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Baltimore, Maryland, President of Johns Hopkins University. "A distinguished geographer who maps with a bold and steady hand the future of an illustrious university."
From 1903 to the day of his death last October, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out...
Last week another Johns Hopkins pathologist, Dr. Dean Howard Affleck, 30, took up Dr. Bloodgood's megaphone and through the American Journal of Cancer sounded the same alarm.
To clinch the seriousness of this possible transition Dr. Affleck compared a group of Johns Hopkins patients who had benign melanoma (moles) excised with another group who suffered from malignant melanoma (black cancers). Four out of five of the cancers had started as moles. Dr. Affleck found that moles occurred...
Concluded Johns Hopkins' Dr. Affleck: "An important fact to note is that once a mole shows sufficient symptoms to cause a patient to consult a physician, it is already in an advanced stage and treatment, regardless of the type, rarely results in cure. The only hope for the present...