St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-27

VIII easily be assailed by fungus dis.
eases" With a superabundance cof
complex foods, certain cells develOp
abnormal habits of proliferation, as
has been shown in the growth of
amoeba artifciaIly fed.
All the facts, all the statistics, sup
port this theory and indicate the ma
tural means 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 So. 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
normal use for the elaborated cell
material
Why, it will naturally be asked. are
women more subject to cancer than
are men? Woman is more delicatelv
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-
ganized, when the conditions are IA
Vorable to cancer, harmOnizes with the
general principle of causation,
Prof. Metchnikoff arrived at the
conclusion that auto-intoxicatiOn. 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
intoxication and cancer, and it can be
readily shown that as each food re-
quires special adaptation for it's diges-
ton, so the waste of each food re-
quires special adaptation for elimina-
ton, and that the natural preventive
of autO-intOXication is the simDljfica
ton of food.
The statistics on cancer, which have
been published for half a century in
England and America, are elaborate
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 1urther 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, that the
chances of recovery are slight when
the knife and cauterization are used.
and that carniVorous animals will be
much more likely to recover if kept on
a strict vegetable diet. These animals
vary most in domestication from their
natural diet. l think their chances
would be better on purely meat diet. |
The important point is that the diet |
should not be mixed. 1t 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.
It doubtless would if the patient would
not die from resulting auto-intoxica-
ton. An ardent follower of DR.. Sails
bury says: Cancers are durable, but
hey require such close attention, such
careful watching that the patient
would have to be under the daily and
most vigilant care of one that has had
in handling the disease.
There are so many little things to do
n keeping the moral, mental, psychic,
md physical condition all in perfect
that the sufferer cannot go