Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Have You a Mole? [ARTICLE]

Have You a Mole?

It is now pretty well established. Bays a distinguished physician, that a large proportion of moles on the face and neck if allowed to remain long enough will become cancers. I have seen this proved any number of times. Several years ago I was called in consultation by an examining physician of a Life Insurance Company 10 look a' a man who wished a slo,' 00 policy. This man had a black mole On his right temple. I advised the physician to re eet the applicant unless he had that mole removed. The would-be policy-holder laughed at mp and angrily said he’d have pothing more to do with a concern that pcoeptpd suqh idiotic advioe. Month ap thpt, he said he’d wear that ■ . Ie for fifty years if he lived that long, „us to prove me a quack. In less than a year a very malignant cancer developo : from that very mole, and within two years from the time I examined him h was a dead man, the cancer ending ho life. But the dermatologist has not ye discovered why moles beeome can or», or how It is known that the pigment or coloring matter in then* is the so son that starts the growth.