The Tupelo journal., 1909-11-12

on successfully alone, as he very often
can if he will, in other illnesses. The
diet has to be most rigid"
l am fully in accord with the state
ment above, especially as to the neces.
sity of rigid diet and the Importance
of the mental condition, and while op-
posing the meat diet as a cure for
cancer, l am glad to acknowledge that
DR.. Salisbury has shown the a~bsurdity
of the claim that there is any virtue in
v-egetarianism, per Sc.
DR.. w. Roger Williams says In the
Twentieth Century Practice Of Medi-
cine:-"Of 1874 cancer patients, 80 had
been moderate, rs small, and IL large
meat eaters-not a single vegetarian
and only a few great eaters OF yegeta-
bles." 1t does not follow that meat
causes cancer, as many suppose. Prod
ably the 80 moderate meat eaters in
dulged in greater variety than the Is
small meat eaters.
Davidson, in his Geographical Path
ology," say that ANGER is entirely
absent in Central Africa, Gold Coast,
New Caledonia, Persia, Jamaica, Gull
ana and among other primitive tribes
which are either cannibal or are VERY
SIMPLE IN THEIR DIET" This re.
flutes alike the meat and the vegetable
theory and. confirms the "~nutriopathic"
theory.
DR.. J. H. Kellogg holds that cancer
is due to eating meat. ct has long
been recognized" he says, that can
Ger seldom appears in persons who
abstain from flesh. 1t is very rare
among the vegetarian natives of India.
A physician who practiced for many
years among the natives of Tierras
Calientes, New Mexico, who subsist
almost wholly upon tropical fruits and
other vegetables, says he never saw a
case of cancer among these people"
This is no doubt true, but it is
equally true that the natives OF Green
land and cannibals generally are prac-
tically immune from cancer, according
to DR.. Sem, but not because they abb
stain from vegetables.
There is a persistent popular belief,
in this country and in England, that
tomatoes cause cancer. If the worm
theory were correct, this vegetable
would be a probable carrier OF the
germ, but tomatoes cancer only
in the same sense in which beans or
meat cause it. Vegetarians are less
liable than meat eaters. The dog, eat
ing little or no green vegetables, is
extremely liable, while the rabbit is
less liable than the mouse.
The mouse and the rat are used for
experimentation in nce chiefly be-
cause they contract cancer very read
lily, and they are notorious for eating
everything.
Evidently not any one food, but ex
cessive and indiscriminate mixing, to-
gether with abnormal mental states is
the general cause And the remedy is
clearly indicated, though requiring
skill in its application; a gradual res
toration of normal nutrition through
the application of the principle of the
monodiet, in harmony with normal
mental conditions.
Since this article was put in type,
DR.. Bashford, of the Cancer Research
Institute, London, has given the results
,of his recent Investigations into the
cause Of cancer. He says it is not hered-
itary: this is favorable to the "nu-
triopathic" theory. His reported state
ment that men are more liable than
women, is, / think, His dis
covery that the trout is especially IL
able, among fish, also supports my
theory. / have investigated the hab-
its Of trout, and find that. according to
the nutriopathic theory It should be
the most susceptible Of fish. The New
international Cyclopedia says: They
are all varieties of trout) ~voracious
and more or less gamy. Their food
consists OF any sort Of fresh animal
matter"