Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-17

only the part involved, believe 1t ID
safest and most practicable to con.
demn the entire carcass wherever the
actinomycotic abscess opens into the
mouth. pharynx, larynx or any part of
the digestive or respiratory tract: or
when the lymphatic glands are involv.
ed; or where there are actinOmycotic
tumors I'm the lungs or when the le-
siOns have become generalized, since
generalization in actinOmycosis ap.
pears to run a very atypic course.
making the detection of all foci inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore,
the entire carcass Is TO be condemned.
"'In cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized. the in.
fccted part may he cut away and the
remains of the carcass used.
These instructions apply only to
"lumpy jaw" There may be other
reasons why you should want to con.
demn Il carcass. and It is then mat
ter Of Judgment for you and your men.
But you should never hesitate to con.
demn IL YOU believe the animal to be
not mt FOR human food"
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The most amazing stupidity concciv.
able Of any people with foreheads Is
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
ward Russell In powerful article
written by him in the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how care
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly Of some things, how 1t might
endure to have its transportation, for
instance, or It's electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that 1t should tolerate a
monopoly Of the primal necessity of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such a monstrous
condition Is our own.
From a thousand illustrations OF the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotiC
arrangement let us cite one.
| There II no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba'
GILL that prey upon mankind are com
mon among the animals he eats FOL
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. II 10 no com
mon among cows that tho wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster
ilixed milk. What Ia hog cholera
among swine is merely typhoid feveI
In men. Trichinea In hogs poisons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than oil these, and more
deadly, Is another fact that Ia seldom
commented upon because 1t In too ap
pailing to dwell much upon. What Il
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle In simply
cancer. The germs Of cancer are
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy Jaw" Any animal with
"lumpy jaw" Is unfit for human
food.
This opens field that demands the
Immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer In the most terrible Of
all diseases. After Il has reached q
certain stage Of development II In ab
sOiutely incurablc. Its progress Il
that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. II,
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. II slays Its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
of this most terrible Of human AZ
fllctiOns has been something 10 alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; II now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
n, the number OF cancerous patients
was one In 5s7. In 1904 the number
was one In 273. In 1870, when the
total population Of the city was 2lG,'
230, the number OF cancer cases re,
ported at all the institutions was AZ,
In 1900, with a total population OF
325,9O2, the number OF cancer cases
reported mt all the institutions was
l0S, and IN 1908, with about the same
population, the number was 2GT.
append the table that shows this rs.
tonishing increase.
Here Is a similar report from two
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL. NEW
YORK.
Total No.