Medicine: Fighting Fear

The theme of the exhibit was cancer, and its motto "Conquest of Fear." At first glance it might have been expected to cause more fear than it conquered, for on display in the Marine Corps Armory in Rome, Ga. last week were 60 anatomically accurate, full-colored models of all the human organs commonly invaded by cancer, showing them in the grip of its malignant growth. There were, besides, all the stainless-steel instruments with which doctors probe for cancer, or cut it out when they find it. Nothing was taboo: the cervix of the womb...

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