Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Have You a Mole? [ARTICLE]

Have You a Mole?

It is*now pretty well established -nys a distinguished physician, Ilia <• ia-ge proportion of moles on the in' •i d neck if allowed to remain ion ; ongh will become cancers. I lmv ii this proved any number of time. . veral years ago I was called in con si'.tatiou by an examining physician ■> a ie I .surance Company to look a a i: c.u who v.i-hed a SIO,IOO policy, lli.s i. . n had a black mole on his right tempi'- I advised the physician to reject tin applicant unless he had that mole n moved. The would-be policy-holder .lavghed at me and angrily said he’d in. ve nothing more to do with a concern tinit accepted suoh idiotic advice. More Ilian that, he said he’d wear that mole !'-<• fifty years if he lived that long, just to prove me a quack. In less than a y ar a very malignant cancer developed ir im that very mole, and within two •y ars from the time I examined him he * a a dead man, the cancer ending his lit' . Eut the dermatologist has not yet dis overed why moles become cancers, or ow it is known that the pigment or o o: ing matter in them is the poison ilia", starts the growth.