Observations by missionary doctors 100 years ago offer clues to fighting cancer and other diseases

By Mark Ellis
Senior Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA (ANS) -- Nobel prize winning physician and theologian Albert Schweitzer worked at the missionary hospital he founded for more than 40 years before he saw his first case of appendicitis among the African natives. Cancer was completely unknown when he first reached the interior lowlands of West Africa in 1913.

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