Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-01-27
Cancer and Alluyfal Soil.

1900 ~~~ ~~S~AN~SAA
spoke short time ago about NJ Charles
B'anc having died Of cancer. and pointed to the
conclusion that his malady was to be in some de-
gree traced to the alluva situation of the Palais
Mazarin, where he resided. OF that disease.
said that it haunts low-lying river-sides and the
mouths of streams which serve as sewers. Per
haps it might be Of interest to some of your
readers to know on what data have to 90.
Raspail first called my attention to the fact sew.
enteen or eighteen years ago. He was In Hol-
land, struck with the prevalence of cancer
IN the low-lying districts, and still more
along the mouths of the Scheldt and the Rhine.
He at first ascribed the frequency of the malady
to the electrical conditions produced by the
metallic plates which the women of different
Netherlandsh localities wear on their heads
to support their tall lace and muslin cans:
but he also found that in the tidal region
OF the Seine, where the soil is alluviaI. there
was a great deal of cancer, although no metal
entered into the headgear. He pursued his
observations at the mouths Of other rivers. They
led him to believe that conditions of soil and
atmosphere which developed scrOtula were also
favorable to cancer, malady which is apt to
hrst show itself in glandular region. Trosseau
cancerous tendency not to Sc fare du n,aurdis
sang by fretting, and to try and live where the
soil Is dry, the air brisk, and the aspest sunny.
have known of a good round number of deaths
from cancer IN those quarters Of the CITY where
there are underground water courses, and along
the Seine. Count Won Goltz. the Prussian am.
bassadOr for many years at the court of the
Tuileries, lived close to the river. When
Madame Louis Blanc was attacked with the
cancerOus malady of which she died. she mad
been for some time residing in the part of the
Rue de RtvOli nearest to the Seine.
Many years ago, in making an excursion
GOWN the Shannon. was appalled, at the num-
Der OF generous old women, who stretched out
their hands for aims at the landing places. Near
Athlone as many as three miserable beings. with
faces ON which the disease was greedily feeding.
presented themselves together. A carman who
noticed that the sight OF them gave meta turn. !"
said: "A power Of widows dies round here of
cancer. We're used to seeing them and have
got hardened. It's all the fault of the board of
works. that is paid to drain the country and
won't do 1t. Ny own mother-Heaven be her
bed-died Of cancer. She had q bad tooth
when the river flooded the house; it ached; her
face swelled up; the doctor lanced it, and in
eighteen months time she was In her grave" A
cancerous tumOr or ulcer broke down the con.
stituttOn Of the Duchess of Kent at damp Frog
more. 1t would be very easy to get at statistics
showing what geological and atmospheric con-
ditfOns most favor cancer II patients on adrnis-
sion to hospital were asked to state in what
localities they had been residing when the dis
ense first showed ITSELF have never seen
cancer0us face In the chalky uplands of Kent.
but have seen good many about Dartmouth.
the Hoo marshes, W0olwich and Chelsea.