Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-16
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.

ana WMIo some inspectors c0n0emn
only the part involved. I believe II 10
safest and most practicable to con.
denim the entire carcass wherever the
actlnomycotic abscess opens into the
mouth, pharynx, iarynx or any part Of
the digestive or respiratory tract; or
when the lymphatic glands are involv.
ed; or where there are actinomycotic
tumOrs In the lungs; or when the le.
siOns have become generalixed, since
generalization In actlnomycosis ap-
pears to run very atypic course,
making the detection of all focl inside
the muscle very difficult; therefore,
the entire carcass Is to be condemned.
"'1n cases where the electromagnetic
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 a carcass. and 1t Is then 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 ut 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 a powerful article
written by him In the Appeal to Rea.
son. You can understand how q care.
less community might tolerate mo.
nopoly Of some things, how 1t might
endure to have It's transportation, for
instance, or its electric light, control.
led by one ownership, for men can
live without sleeping cars or arc
lamps; but that It 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 q monstr0ua
condition IL our own.
From a thousand illustrations Of the
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arrangement let 10 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 TINT 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 10 com
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewnrned will use none but ster
ilixed milk. What is "hog cholera
among swine IL merely typhoid fevel
In men. Trlchinca In hogs polsoni
human beings. Roth these disease,
are common among swine.
Worse than all these. and NOR,
deadly, is another fact that is seldom
commented upon because 1t is too up
pallln,; to dwell much upon. What Il
called "lumpy Jaw" In cattle is slmpl!
cancer. The germs of cancer ar
communicable. Many cattle hav'
"lumpy Jaw" Any animal witt
"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 o
all diseases. After It has reached
certain stage Of development It 10 ah
solutely incurable. Its progress +
!. that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. II
{ advance beyond that stage canno
!, even be checked. II slays its victim
with the most horrible torture.
: In this country the recent increas
|, Of this most terrible Of human al
J, fiictions has been something to alaru
( us all. II was once rare; II nov
J. threatens to become common. In tn
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1876
0 II. the number Of cancerous patient
!. was one in 5s7. In 1904 the numbe
3 was one In 273. In 1870. when tn
Q total population Of the city was 2l8
!, 230, the number Of cancer cases n
ported Mt all the institutions was 4:
/ In 1900, with total population q
4 3o5,0O2, the number Of cancer case
| reDOIteu az ou SuO tusGAtuSsoub wa
1903, and In 1908, with about the sam
population, the number was 287.
;" append the table that shows this al
tonishing increase.
Here 10 a similar report from tw
=. well.known hospitals elsewhere:
i. ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEV
YORK.
Total No.
Year. OF patients. Canoe
1878. S.................1, 1885
1870. 0.................1,6 .1,617 4
, 1880. .1,474
), 1891. l.................l, .l,6SS
1852. 2.................2, .2,l68
1898, S,..........:.....2, .2,l82
1884. S4.................2 .2.248
1885. 5.................2 .2.372
>. 1885. 8.................2. .2.b0a
1887. S7................2.728
o 1883. 0.................2 .2.4S7
!. 1880. .................2 .2.764
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