The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-12

will easily be assailed by fungus dis
cases. With a superabundance or
complex foods, certain cells develop
abnormal habits of p~roliferation, as
has been shown in the growth of
amoeba artificially fed.
All the facts, all the statistics, sup
port this theory and indicate the IA
tural mean of immunity, and the ma
tural cure when the disease has been
contracted.
Cancer rarely occurs before mature
life, the most susceptible period being
the age of 40 to SIS. During the period
of growth, when albumen, from which
cells are formed, is needed in large
proportion, and when waste and re-
pair are more active. cancer is rare,
but when the supply of albumen is ex-
cessive, and the diet in general COM
plicated, as it is with the weather.
classes in northern Europe and
America, the tendency to abnormal
proliferation is great, especially if the
exercise is not sufficient to maintain
normal katabolism, or breaking down
and renewal of cells, so as to provide
a normal use for the elaborated cell
material.
Why, it will naturally be asked, are
women more subject to ANGER than
are men? Woman is more delicately
| constituted and under the same condi-
tons is more easily ~disorganized. The
fact that those organisms are more
frequently the location of %cancerous
! tumors which are subject to period
ical growth, whose growth is vari-
| able and therefore more easily disor-
| gained, when the conditions are ia
vorable to cancer, harmonizes with the
general principle of causation.
Prof. Metchnikoff arrived at the
| conclusion that administration, self
| poisoning by the absorption of the
waste products OF superfiuous foods, is
the chief cause of physical decay, a
theory presented before, but the rem
| edy for which he found in buttermilk,
which prevents the development of
certain pathogenic germs in the colon.
| A close relation exists between auto
in%toxication and cancer, and it can be
| readily shown that as each food re-
| uuires special adaptation for its diges-
| ton, so the waste of each food re-
| auires special adaptation for elimina-
| ton, and that the natural preventive
of auto-intoxication is the simplifica-
ton of food.
The statistics on cancer which have
been published for half a century in
England and America, are elaborate
I beyond the requirements of any sys-
tematic investigation, and the many
thousands of catalogued experiments
made upon animals leave nothing to
be done that can throw lurther light
upon the problem.
Leblanc, an eminent Partisan veter-
mary authority on cancer, says that
the dog, cat and pig are the animals
most subject to cancer, b a n
chances of recovery are slight when
the knife and cauterization are used,
and that ~carnivorous animals Will be
much more likely to II Kept on
a strict vegetable diet. These animals
vary most in domestication from their
natural diet. I think their chances
would be better on a purely meat diet.
The important point is that the diet
should not be mixed. It is interesting
in this connection to note that DR..
Salisbury, originator of the meat
cure" held that an exclusive diet of
meat, little cooked, would cure cancer.
1t doubtless would If the patient would
not die from resulting auto-intoxica-
ton. An ardent follower Of DR.. Sails
bury y Cancers are durable, but
they require such close attention, such
careful watching that the patient
would have to be under the daily and
most vigilant care of n that has had
experience in handling the disease.
There are so many little things to do
in keeping the moral, mental. psychic,
and physical condition all In perfect
balance, that the sufferer cannot 60