Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-10
A Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty of
Spreading Tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.


only the part involved. I believe 1t Is
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
timors In the lungs: or when the le-
sions have become generalized, since
generalization In actinOmycosis ap.
pears to run Il 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.
fected part may be cut away and the
remains Of the carcass used.
"'rhese instructions apply only to
"lumpy Jaw" There may be other
reasons why you should want to con-
denim a carcass. and It Is then a mat
ter Of judgment for you and your men,
But YOU should never hesitate to con.
demn II you believe the animal to be
not fit for human food"
The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads IL
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 Rca.
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 Its 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
nges have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such u monstrous
condition Is our own.
From thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let us cite one.
There Is no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surer than
through infected meat tissue. Some
OF the worst and most destructive ba
cilli that prey upon mankind are com
mon among the animals he eats fol
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of II through
the human population. 1t IL 80 com
mon among cows that the wise ant
the f0rewarned will use none but ster
ilized milk. What Is hog cholera
among swine Ia merely typhoid fevel
In men. Trichinea In hogs poisoni
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and NOR
deadly, Ii another fact that IL seldom
commented upon because II 10 too ap
paliing to dwell much upon. What 4
called "lumpy Jaw" In cattle u simpl!
cancer. The germs Of cancer ar
communicable. Many cattle hav'
"lumpy jaw" Any animal wit
"lumpy jaw" 10 unit for human
food.
This opens a field that demands tn
immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer 10 the most terrible 0
all diseases. After It has reached
certain stage OF development 1t is oh
sOlutely incurable. Its progress I
that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. 1t
advance beyond that stage canno
even be checked. 1t Stays Its victim
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increas
of this most terrible Of human nj
fictions has been something to alarr
us all. 1t was once rare; II nov
threatens to become common. In tn
Cincinnati hospital, in the year 1876
} n, the number of cancerous patient
was one in 5S7. In 1904 the numbe
, was one in 273. In 1870, when tn
total population of the city was GIG
239, the number Of cancer cases rt
ported at all the institutions was A.
In 1900, with total population o
325,9O2, the number of cancer case
reported at all the institutions wa
l0S, and in 1908, with about the sam
population, the number was 2G7.
append the table that shows this as
tOnishlng increase.
Here is similar report from tw
well-known hospitals elsewhere
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year, OF patients. Canoe,