Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1882 — A Favorite Female Fancy. [ARTICLE]

A Favorite Female Fancy.

One of ti e most cherished delusions that most women sutler from is their individual liability to cancer. Cases of cancer are so extremely rare that when one is re* orted the public press and the doctors make a great ado over it. Fortunately it is rare, for it is an extremely malignant disease, and when it has attacked an organ there is very little hope of effectually removing it, for in the most insidious way its fibrous ramifications extend in all directions. Yet, notwithstanding these facts, it is reported that a lady well known in art circles in Cincinnati, who has been almost at death’s door for sometime past from internal cancer, having been given up by her physicians and friends, resolved upon a system of prayer, and calling in a city missionary they prayed so effectually that in three months the cancer was reduced one-half in size and is now rapidly disappearing, this is certainly a remarkable case, and indicates that if the lady had had as much faith in her doctors as she had in the prayerr she would never have been brought to death’s door. But there is every reason why she should not have trusted her doctor, for it is quite evident that, like ninety-hundredths of her sex who think they are suffering from the same thing, she never had a cancer, for one that had brought the sufferer to death’s door would not give up the fight in this manner