Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-04-07
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 lymphatlc glands are involv-
ed; or where there are actinOmycotic
tumOrs In the lungs or when the le-
siOns have become generalizcd. 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.
"'1n cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized, the in.
fected part may be 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 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 nc for human food"
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The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
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 a mo.
nopoly Of some things, how It 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
monopoly Of the primal necessity Of
food Is beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked say.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that, and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such monstrous
condition Is our own.
From a 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 surcr than
through infected meat tissue. Some
Of the worst and most destructive ba.
GILL that prey upon mankind IRE com.
mon among the animals he eats for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. It Is 30 com.
mon among cows that the wise and
tho forewarned will use none but stcr.
ilixed milk. What Is hog cholera"
among swine Is merely typhoid fever
In men. Trichinca in hogs poisons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, ana more
deadly, Is another fact that is seldom
commented upon because It is too ap.
palling to dwell much upon. What Ia
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle Ia 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 a field that demands the
immediate attention Of the govern.
ment. Cancer Is the most terrible OF
all diseases. After It has reached a
certain stage Of development It Ia ab.
solutely incurable. Its progress ia
that stage may be without the pa
tients knowledge or suspicion. Its
advance beyond that stage cannot
even be checked. 1t Stays Its victims
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increase
Of this most terrible Of human at.
Hictions has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; It now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
II, 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 210,'
23O. the number Of cancer cases re-
ported at all the institutions was e.
In 1000, with q total population OF
OSO,UUs, tuc uuIuucC VI CuuCcC CuBch
reported at all the institutions was
l0S, and In 1908, with about the same
population, the number was 207.
append the table that shows this as
tonishing increase.
Here is a similar report from two
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year. Of patients. Cancer
1878. ........... 1855 rs
1870. ............. 1917 4O
1880. ..............1, .1,474 20
1881. 1855 q
1882. 2.................2.1 .2.1G8 20
1888. 3.................2,l .2,l32 80
1884. 4................ .2,24S 81
1885. 5.................2 .2372 q
1886. .................2,5 1854 G
1887. S7.................2 .2,72S n
1883. S.............,...2, .2,4S7 81
1880. 0.................2. .2.754 70
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