Galway In Days Gone By

Curing cancer

It will be heartening news to cancer sufferers to learn that such an eminent authority as Sir Berkley Moynihan declares that cancer can be cured.

In his presential address at Leeds University, Sir Berkley said: “We do not know the cause or causes of cancer, but we do know certainly how to cure it if only the early opportunities are vouchsafed upon us.”

He added that if cancer is treated by operative methods on a plan comfortable to modern notions the disease is permanently and completely eradicated.

All authorities agree that the present-day conditions of living are responsible for the growth of cancer, with its appalling consequences in the toll of human life.

It is a significant fact that the Indians and the aboriginal races did not suffer from the disease. A return to the natural living of our forefathers, when home-made bread and porridge made up the bulk of their dietary, will do more to prevent the spread of cancer than all the drugs in the English pharmacopoeia.

Pictured: A giant candle burns brightly in the grounds of St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway City, to mark the arrival of a new year in a street show staged by Macnas on December 31, 1987.