Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-30
4 Writer Holds This Awful Organization
Responsible for the Spread
Of Cancer
And Also Says that It Is Guilty Of
Spreading Tuberculosis and
Other Diseases.

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only the part involved. I believe It 10
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 actlnOmycotic |
tumors in the lungs; or when the le-
sions have become generalixed. 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 Ia to be condemned.
"'In cases where the actinomycotic
LESSONS are positively localized. the In.
fectel 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.
demn n 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 III 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 10 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 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.
ages have uniformly been too wise
for that. and the only nation that has
ever submitted to such q monstrous
condition Is our own.
From a thousand illustrations Of the
injuries we all suffer from this idiotic
arrangement let us cite one.
There IL 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 for
food. Cows have tuberculosis and
spread vast quantities Of It through
the human population. II u 20 com.
mon among cows that the wise and
the forewarned will use none but ster.
ilized milk. What IL hog cholera"
among swine is merely typhoid fever
In men. Trichinea In hogs poisons
human beings. Both these diseases
are common among swine.
Worse than all these. and more
deadly. Ia another fact that 10 seldom
commented upon because II IL too ap.
pailing 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" II unit 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 10 ab.
solutely incurable. Its progress to
that stage may be without the pa.
tents 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 af.
, aictiOns has been something to alarm
us all. II was once rare; II now
threatens to become common. In the
Cincinnati hospital, In the year 1870
n, 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 21G,-
, 230 the number Of cancer cases re-
ported at all the institutions was ~.
/ In 1900, with total population Of
325,9O2, the number of cancer cases
reported ut all the institutions was
l0S. and In 1908, with about the same
population, the number was 2G7. l
append the table that shows this rs.
tonlshlng increase.
Here Is a similar report from two
well-known hospitals elsewhere:
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL, NEW
YORK.
Total No.
Year. Of patients. Cancer.