—“Consumption Cured!” Editorial from the March 14, 1925, issue of The Saturday Evening Post
A large proportion of cases of both tuberculosis and cancer are completely curable if taken in time. Every day of delay in securing competent medical advice lessens the patient’s chances of recovery. Procrastination for even a few weeks, due to a desire to try out a course of patent medicine, may mean death instead of life. These diseases sometimes progress with great rapidity, and a month of shilly-shallying may make a light case grave or a curable case hopeless.
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