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


cries have been Of
fered to explain it's cause, yet it
is admitted to-day by the high
est authority that cancer is in
durable; and though many cures
have been proposed, the only hope
is still the possibility of remoy-
ing it by operation, which, however,
often serves only to hasten the end.
Recent investigation into the effects
hitherto not fully recognized, of disor-
ganlzed nutrition, resulting chiefly
from complex diet and overeatine
| nave led me to the conclusion
that cancer is due to abnormal cell
prohterattOn resulting from those
causes and that. consequently. it
can be cured by restoring normal
hucrltlon-by course OF rigid diet
ing and by proper mental control
IN harmony Herewith, the mental
state now being understood to have a
very important bearing upon physical
conditions. Though this natural cure
uas the virtue of simplicity and entire
freedom from risk, it is no less WORTHY
OF consideration than the now we'll
established treatment of consumntior
by fresh air, scientific feeding ever
else and suggestion.
rants and animals have an organ.
lZed growth, each organ bearing q cer.
tam propOrtlonate size and doing q
certain work in the social group. AT
maturity growth ceases, but organic
tissue continues to be renewed bv nev
cells replacing the old. In cancor |
there is disorganization of tbis b.r
injurious growth and renewal, which
is dependent upon normal nutrition |
this term including not onlv the an.
preparation of food, but the elahora-
ton OF tissue, the elimination of waste
ana the control of all the processes nv
mental states. A colony of stomach
cells, for instance, is established m
the liver, gradually encroaching unon
that organ until it seriously interferes
with It's functions and poisons the
blood by the secretion of abnormal
poisonous matter. Such renegade
cell organization shows some capacitv
Tor the function of, in this case the
stomach, SeCreting uuasi.paStrio
mud; but the cancer cell is irregular
in growth, irregular in function irreo.
ular in nutrition
Ii the cancerOus tumor be eycisnd
scattering cells may migrate and as.
taDllshlng themselves elsewhere grow
more rapidly than before. or, some ro-
naming in the same location renew
lhe groWth-lf indeed the growth is
not too far developed when exnlored
by the surgeon, to allow of removal
what Is the origin of this growth?
DISCRIMINATION. surely; loss in
some degree of the normal nroc-
esses of nutrition. And careful
inquiry into the nature OF nutrition
has shown that disorganizotion 10 IN
duced by abnormal complexity of dot
the eating of many different foods ~
the same meal, each having IFS own
requirement for elaboration into coll
tissue; emphasized by excessive oo+-
ing and abnormal mental states, eene-
clally after middle life, when the 70.
qulrement for food is reduced with.
out reduction in tire supply. as is com.
mon IN prosperOus America, England
u, | I
france and Germany, more particu,or
~, where cancer is very common o,d
increasing among the well-to.do
Statistics show that one oP o,,ou,.
eight women above the age of "a ava {
one Of every IA men, in America do
OF cancer; and these not. as in tho '
case OF tuberculosis, chiefly from tho ! {
lower classes, but Of the flower Of tho {
race; not so largely from the SLIM {
districts of New York, where COW {
sumption reaps its largest barvas+ oc 1
from F1rth avenue and Brooklyn. No s
class Is immune from cancer, but its i
largest roll of victims is made I'D from {
our most Intelligent and highly cnIti- {
waited men and women, from refined I
society women and the most valued /
professional and business men Ra-
Gently an eminent surgeon. DR.. viii.
liam L. Bull of New York. himself n {
specialist in the removal of cancerous {
tumors, was taken: also Father Cor. q
ham,. the Irish-American orator priest. a
Edward H. Hartman has been cut off
in his prime, and the loss of one of the c
nations presidents from this cause r
comes to mind. In view of these t
facts it may be said that cancer is the S
1irest blight of humanity and every a
new prospect of the discovery of it's t
zeal nature, its cause, and consequent O
y its cure, is profoundly alluring. C
The late eminent DR.. Nicholas Sem
vice circled the globe on this great n
luest-a search far more important O
han for the location of the north fl
'ole. After visiting all classes of man ii
lind from the Grannlandnr cuhcirt;nnr "