Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Have You a Mole? [ARTICLE]

Have You a Mole?

It is now pretty well established, says a distinguished physician, that u 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 o a Life Insurance Company to look at u man who wi-hed a $lO, 1 00 policy. This man had a black mole on his right temple. I advised the physician to reject the app leant unless he had that mole removed. The would-be policy-holder laughed at me and angrily said he’d have nothing more to do with a concern that accepted such Idiotic advioe. More >hnn that, he said he’d wear that mole for fifty years if he lived that long, jusr o prove me a quack. In less than u y >ar a very malignant cancer devolope ;rotn that very mole, and within two v-)ars from the time I examined him h. as a dead man, the < ancer ending hie life. Cut the dermatologist has not ye discovered why moles become cancers, or how it is known that the pigment o < oloring matter in them is the poison that starts the growth.