Cancer in Kashmir

cancer ought to be very common in Kashmir, but it is not so. We meet with epithelioma on the thigh and abdomen resulting from constant irritation of live charcoals used by Kashmiris for warming in winter in pots called kangries to which the name Kangri cancer might be given. Besides these cancer in other parts are also seen, and of these cancer in the beast is, I believe, more common than in other parts. This may be due to irritation of the breast by repeated lactation in prolific women and professional wetnurses, and Kashmiris are a very prolific race. Between the years 1886 and 1897, 1G cases of cancer of the breast were operated upon in the State Hospitals in Kashmir, most of the cases were of ordinary type belonging to the group formerly spoken of as scirrhus, Maliomedans 12, Hindus 4 :