Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-03-24
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. believe 1t is
safest and most practicable to con-
demn tho 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.
cd; or where there are actinomycOtic
tumors In the lungs; or when the le-
siOns have become generalized, since
generalization in actinOmycOsis ap-
pears to run very atypic course.
making the detection Of all fOci inside
the muscle very difficult: therefore,
the entire carcass is to he condemned.
"'ln 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 he other
reasons why you should want to con.
demn carcass. and 1t IL 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 fit for human food"
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The most amazing stupidity conceiv.
able Of any people with foreheads 10
that they should allow their supply
Of food to pass into the hands Of one
speculative interest, says Charles Ed.
nvss1 In Sfs1
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 it's transportation, fol
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 q
monopoly Of the primal necessity OF
food IL beyond comprehension and
without precedent. Even naked saw
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that hui
ever submitted to such u monstroui
condition In our own.
From 4 thousand illustrations Of thu
injuries We all suffer from this idiotit
arrangement let ais cite one.
There IL no way Of communicating
disease to the human body surcr thar
through infected meat tissue. Som,
OF the worst and most destructive ba
cilli that prey upon mankind are com
mon among the animals he eats 70
food. Cows have tuberculosis an'
spread vast quantities Of 1t through
the human population. 1t Is 10 com
mon among cows that the wise an,
the forcwarned will use none but ster
ilixed milk. What ID hog cholera
among swine In merely typhoid feve
In men. Trlchinea In hogs poison
human beings. Roth these disease
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and NOR
deadly, is another fact that Ia seldom
commented upon because 1t Ii too az
palling to dwell much upon. What
called "lumpy jaw" in cattle n slmpi
cancer. The germs Of cancer ar
communicable. Many cattle hav
"iumpy jaw" Any animal wit
%umpy jaw" is unit for huma
food.
This opens a field that demands tn
immediate attention Of the gOverr
ment. Cancer is the most terrible q
all diseases. After 1t has reached
certain stage of development 1t Ia al
solutely incurable. Its progress I
. that stage may be without the pi
tents knowledge or suspicion. II
advance beyond that stage canne
, even be checked. 1t Stays It's victim
with the most horrible torture.
In this country the recent increaa
tof this most terrible Of human a
alctions has been something to alarl
/ MS all. 1t was once rare;, 1t nO'
threatens to become common. In til
Cincinnati hospital. In the year 1871
} II, the number Of cancerOus patient
. was one In 6S7. In 1904 the numbt
, was one In 273. In 1870. when Ii
! total population Of the city was ZIG
go, the number Of cancer cases r
ported at all the institutions was 4:
I In 1900, with total population {
, 325,9O2. the number of cancer cast
reported Mt all the institutions ws
1893, and In 1903, with about the san
population, the number was 207.
' append the table that shows this q
tonishing increase.
: Here Is a similar report from tw
: well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEV
YORK.
Total No.
: Year. Of patients. Canoe
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