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

on successfully alone, as he very often
can, if he will, in other illnesses. The
diet has to be most rigid"
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 o0.
posing the meat diet as a cure for
cancer, | am glad to acknowledge that
DR.. Salisbury has shown the absurdity
of the claim that there is any virtue in
vegetarianism, 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 16 large
meat eaterS-nOt a single vegetarian
and only few great eaters of yegeta-
bles." It does not follow that meat
causes cancer, as many suppose. Prob
ably the 80 moderate meat eaters in
dulged in greater variety than the IS
small meat eaters.
Davidson, in his Geographical Path
ology," says that cancer is entirely
absent in Central Africa, Gold Coast,
New Caledonia, Persia, Jamaica, Gui-
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. 1T 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 alb
stain from vegetables.
There is 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 cause cancer only
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 cancer 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 tn. |
gether with abnormal mental states ia |
The general cause. And the remedy ia |
clearly indicated, though recurring
skill IN its application; a gradual res.
-oration of normal nutrition through
The application of the principle of the
nonodiet, 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
If his recent Investigations into the
;ause of cancer. He says it is not hered.
tary: this is favorable to the "nu-
riopathic" theory. His reported state.
nent that men are more liable than
women, is, I think, erroneous. His dis
'overy that the trout is especially Ii.
bile, among fish, also supports nv
heory. have investigated the hab.
is OF trout, and find that, according to
he nutriopathic theory it should be
he most susceptible of fish. The New
International Cyclopedia says: "Tbev
re all varieties of trout voracious
nd more or less gamy. Their food
onsists OF any sort of fresh animal
natter"