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Main causes of breast cancer are chronic mastitis (inflammation), and stagnation of milk or other secretions. Somehow breast cancer is related to high-speed ovaries, and latest statistics show that it may be more common in women who do not nurse their children. If a little cancerous node is detected early, it can be easily removed and the disease checked. But in advanced cases the breast must be amputated, all the lymph glands leading to the shoulder and arm must be carefully tied off or removed...
When Bori reached the U. S. 18 years ago (she was 22) success was instant. Two years later a node formed on one of her vocal cords, took away her voice. She underwent an operation which left her a croak little better than a grackle's. She underwent the knife again, went back to Valencia, lived outdoors, burned countless candles to La Virgen Maria and waited months, not speaking out loud. When the voice did come back it was some time before she dared test it. Again she went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals...
...larvae develop within the mosquito. Later the insect bites another human, disgorging at the instant one or more tiny worms. They burrow into the victim, seek out a lymph node, breed. Batches of them snarl themselves in the lymph passages causing inflammation, which blocks the free passage of lymph through the body. It backs up, causing swellings, particularly of the legs and groin in the Antilles. Affected parts grow massy. The skin thickens and crinkles like an elephant's. Hence the name elephantiasis for one aspect of the disease...
...thickened. Dr. Senftner told the three to flip their hands over. The backs were covered with similar sores. One of the patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their hands and in one case a swollen lymph node in the armpit. Dr. Senftner went out into the cow-yard and found the dairy-man's herd of 13 cows all sick, their udders and teats pocked with pustules. The diagnosis was: cowpox, long a rare disease among animals, as well as among humans. The treatment: applications of mercurochrome...