Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-19

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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.
cd; or where there are actinomycOtic
tumors in the lungs; or when the le.
siOns have become generalized. since
generalization In actipOmycOsls ap.
pears to run 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.
fectcd 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 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 ft 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 Rea-
son. You can understand how care.
less community might tolerate 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 n
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 thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we oil suffer from this idiotiC
arrangement let us cite one.
There - 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 fdl
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. It IL 40 com
mon among cows that tho wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster
llized milk. What II hog cholera
among swine Is merely typhoid fevel
In men. TrlchInca In hogs poison'
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these, and more
deadly, Ia another fact that Is seldom
commented upon because 1t is too ap
palling to dwell much upon. What Il
called "lumpy jaw" In cattle Is simply
cancer. The germs OF cancer ar'
communicable. Many cattle have
"lumpy Jaw" Any animal viii
"lumpy jaw" is UNFIT for human
food.
This opens field that demands tn,
immediate attention Of the govern
ment. Cancer IL the most terrible o.
all diseases. After It has reached I
certain stage Of development It is ab
solutciy incurable. Its progress t
that stage may be without the pa
tents knowledge or suspicion. 1T
advance beyond that stage cann0
, even be checked. It slays Its victlml
with the most horrible torture.
: In this country the recent increas'
Of this most terrible of human af
fiictions has been something to alarm
us all. 1t was once rare; 1t nov
threatens to become common. In tn
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
} u, the number of cancer0us patient
was one in 5S7. In 1904 the numbe
, was one in 273. In 1870, when tn
J total population Of the city was 216,
?30. the number of cancer cases re
ported at all the institutions was 42
/ 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
tonishing increase.
Here is a similar report from tw
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year. Of patients. Cancer
1878. S............,. .l,6oo =