The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-01-11

Is admitted today by the high
est authority that cancer is in
durable; and though many cures
have been proposed, the only hone
Is still the possibility of remov-
ing it by operation, which, however,
often serves only to hasten the end.
Recent investigation into the effects.
hitherto not fully recognized. of disor-
gained nutrition, resulting chiefly
from complex diet and overeating,
have led me to the conclusion
that cancer is due to abnormal cell
proliferation resulting from those
causes and that, consequently. it
can be cured by restoring normal
nutrition-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
has the virtue of simplicity and entire
freedom from risk, it is no less worthy
OF consideration than the now we'll
established treatment of consumption
by fresh air, scientific feeding exer-
else and suggestion
Plants and animals have an organ
lied growth, each organ bearing a GER
tain proportionate size and doing a
certain work in the social group. At
maturity growth ceases, but organic
tissue continues to be renewed by new
cells replacing the old. In cancer
there is a disorganization of this har-
mopiOus growth and renewal which
is dependent upon normal nutrition.
this term including not only the ap-
preparation of food, but the elabora-
ton of tissue, the elimination of waste
and the control of all the processes by
mental states. A colony Of stomach
cells, for instance, is established on
the liver, gradually encroaching upon
that organ until it seriously interferes
with its functions and poisons the
blood by the secretion of abnormal
poisonous matter. Such a renegade
| cell organization shows some capacity
for the function of, in this case, the
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fluid: but the cancer cell is irregular
In growth. irregular in function, irreg-
ular in nutrition.
II the cancerous tumor be excised
scattering cells may migrate and, es-
tablishing themselves elsewhere, grow
more rapidly than before, or, some re-
naming in the same location, renew
the growth-if indeed the growth is
not too far developed when explored
by the surgeon, to allow of removal.
What is the origin of this growth
DISCRIMINATION, surely; loss IN
some degree of the normal proc
esses of nutrition. And careful
inquiry into the nature OF nutrition
has shown that disorganizntion is IN
duced by abnormal completely OF diet
the eating of many different foods at
the same meal, each having Its own
requirement for elaboration into cell
tissue: emphasized by excessive eat
ing and abnormal mental states, espe-
cially after middle life. when the re-
ouirement for food is reduced wlth-
| out reduction IN tue supply, 90 10 N'
mon in prosperous America, England
France and Germany. more particular
". where cancer is very common ana
increasing among the well-to-do.
Statistics show that one OF every
eight women above the age OF 80, ana
one of every IA men, in America ole
of cancer; and these not, as III ,he
case of tuberculosis, chiefly from the
lower classes, but of the flower oil the
race: not so largely from the SUM
districts of New York, where con-
sumption reaps its largest harvest as
from Fifth avenue and Brooklyn NO
class is immune from cancer out us
largest roll of victims is made up from
our most intelligent and highiy cui'i,
waited men and women, IRON relneu
society women and the most Vaiqeu
| professional and business men ' n
gently an eminent surgeon, Dr' WI,
km T. Bull of New York. himsell q
,pecialist in the removal OF cancerou'