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To: DevNet

The answer is still the same:

There is no evidence of notable loss of life from cancer in recorded history, prior th the industrial revolution.

Now go play ‘til mom gets home.


42 posted on 03/10/2009 4:37:45 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: editor-surveyor

That isn’t what you claimed before - you stated that cancer did not exist till the industrial revolution.

If you aren’t going to be truthful please don’t speak to me in the future.


45 posted on 03/10/2009 4:38:52 PM PDT by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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To: editor-surveyor; DevNet
There is no evidence of notable loss of life from cancer in recorded history, prior th the industrial revolution.

There are tons of references to tumors (cancers) in ancient literature. The ancient Greeks even did surgery to cut them out. I just finished reading a book about Rome and I would be willing to bet that half of the natural deaths that were described were due to some form of cancer. Of course they had other names for what was happening but the symptoms give clues.

Having said that, there is very little doubt though that disease was the big killer in ancient times, followed by accidents, starvation and killing in no particular order. Cancer might not have even been in the top ten.

79 posted on 03/10/2009 11:09:27 PM PDT by LeGrande (I once heard a smart man say that you canÂ’t reason someone out of something that they didnÂ’t reaso)
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