Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-24
PUTS BAN ON MEAT.
Noted Expert Says Vegetarian Diet
Will Conquer Cancer.

a new experiment in the treatment
OF cancer is made by DR.. Alexander
Haig at the Metropolitan Hospital.
Shoreditch, and at the Royal Waterloo
Hospital, Waterloo Bridge road.
1t is to be an experiment in dieting
DIR. Haig holding the belief that an al
teration in the food given to the pa
tent may sometimes effect a cure
He wants 3 to 40 sufferers to under
go his Observation-Disclosures in whom
the disease has gone so far az to be
iroperable, that is, hopeless, but they
must be patients who have at least a
probability of six months of life left.
AT present when cancer reaches the
inoperable stage" a doctor said, the
patient is beyond hope, and nothing
can be prescribed except opiates to
lessen the pain.
DR. Haig will take 40 such cases
the men in Shoreditch and the women
in the Royal Waterloo-and put them
urder his dietary treatment. which
will certainly lessen the pain and.
greater than that, will offer just the
chance of a cure"
Dr. Haig himself, in a letter to the
Lancet, states that he has been l2
iIbiitllS tISlIlS 10 get Suci patients,
but they are quite difficult to obtain,
for cases of this kind are generally
sent back To their friends or to homes
for the dying.
The treatment consists in putting
the iOrn of uric acid free diet" writes
DR.. Haig. and from that on to one of
nuts and fruit chiefly, the only fluid
beSi>ies fruit juice being distilled wa
ter.
In order that this may be done I
want cases in which there is prob
ability of at least six months of life,
as change nj diet produces little visi-
BILE effect on the body under three
months"
The names and addresses of three
men afflicted with inoperable cancer.
who are willing to undergo DR.. Haig's
treatment, have been mt to the senior
house physician at the Metropolitan
and the Royal Waterloo has received
about a dozen from women.
DR. Robert Bell an authority on the
prevention and treatment of cancer.
said that it is, in every instance. an
acquired disease.
II should like To make it quite clear"
h. states. that cancer is not an he
reditary disease. and. moreover, that il
is not contagious, nor is it infectious.
IL is the direct result of faulty mode
of life.
Go back as far as the first chapter
Of Genesis and you will find, Verse %.
the decree of what mans food should
be; Behold l have given you
every herb bearing seed which is upon
the face of all the earth, and every
tree, iii which is the fruit of tree
yielding seed; to you it shall he for
meat
But man feeds himself with food
which is utterly unsuitable. An engi-
neer might equally feed Lis furnaces
with ashes instead of coal
1T is an essential of the cells of the
human. as we'll as every other animal.
that they be supplied with nourish-
| ment derived from living. not dead.
material Man is the only creature
who destroys the most essential consti-
| tuent of his food before eating it,
| Experiment has placed beyond all
doubt the fact that ripe fruit in its
natural-not cooked condition contains
| radio active energy. and | think that
the chlorophyl of plants also contains
this energy.
Cancer cannot only be relieved but
cured when natural diet is substitu-
ted for the present foodstuffs. and
predicted two years ago that cancer
will be an extinct disease before 10
Years have elapsed. Notwithstanding
the hidebound prejudices which at
present prevail. London Cor. Chicago
Inter Ocean.