Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1915-01-29
A worn ABOUT CANCER.

- WOnt AoOO SN'NCG"
United States government reports
show that during the ten years pre-
ceding 1911 the population OF this
country Increased 81 per cent. Dur
ing this period the death rate per
100, 900 from cancer increased 30 per
cent among males and 20 per cent
among females. The extraordinary
increase In the mortality due to can
Ger In this and other countries has
long since raised that malady TO the
proportions Of q great plague" says
an authority who wrote on this sub
ject recently. THE power OF human
resistance to this disease seems to
be steadily declining" lie then pro-
ceeds to predict that at the present
rate OF increase In another 90 years
cancer will cause more deaths than
tuberculosis. typhoid fever and ma
laria combined. :
Scientists throughout the world are
diligently searching for the cause OF
this fearful scourge OF mankind, In
order that a specific preventive and
cure may DO found. Meanwhile ev-
cry individual should be informed
that cancer Is to a large degree pre-
yentable II we will but apply the
knowledge we already possess to
guard against II.
There are many theories MS to the
cause OF cancer, the most logical one
being that advanced by a group Of
m~lcroscopists working along biologi-
cal lines. The basis of this theory Is
that cancer Is n state of anarchy with
In the body. To be able TO grasp the
theory and also to understand why the
X-ray Is at all effective In cases OF
cancer II Is necessary to have Il
thorough comprehension of the prop.
osition advanced by Virchow In 1858,
which ! have noted In "A previous DR.
cells composing the human body Is
Il distinct individual possessed OF all
the characteristic ~ of life. That is
to say. every reader of this article
Is composed Of many billions OF lndl-
viduals. each having all the lowers
and faculties that the reader Is con.
sclous Of possessing aud differing In
no way save IN degree. Every living
thing Is constructed OF these same in
diyidual cells, composed of the same
protoplasm, and differs only In organ
izatlon.
II Is during the first few years and
more particularly during the FIRST year
Of life that the highest human NOR
tally takes place. The newly pro-
liberated cells are not thoroughly or
ganlzed and the entire organism is
therefore weak and unstable. Ordi-
narlly We do not think OF working
young children or animals, beause we
know that their tissues are soft and
therefore that they may very easily
be broken down and ruined; but at
maturity we know there Is n more per-
feet organization, the cells are more
fixed, stable and adaptable and are
therefore highly resistant. This fact
forms the basis for the action of the
N-rays on cancer
There ls no remedy known TO medl-
cine that has a selective influence,
/ AIflN IN iOAllik AHdA inl uI put lllO
these bodies OF ours that will drive
disease out and not touch healthy
tissues, hut, depending on the state
OF the individual cell vitality, tissues
react differently to the same lnnu-
ence; hence tissues having marked
power OF prollferation are necessarily
composed Of masses OF these young or
Juvenile cells and ale OF course vast.
~ more susceptible to any Influence
than are the more fully formed and
stable adult" cells which may often
remain unchanged for years.
An anarchist cell' finds a fayora-
BILE location and proceeds to prollfer.
ate; that is to say, II multlplles by
division. as all the aomatlc cells do,
and these young and weak cells form
what Is technically known as 'juye-
nile" tissue within the more stable,
older. or adult tissue OF the organ
In which the cancerous process Is Ia.
king place. II now the hard" very
penetrating rays of the X.ray are
turned upon this diseased area one
OF two things takes place-either the
short, sharp oscillations. which we
have noted approximate more than
500, 600, 900, 900 per second, shake these
weak Juvenile" cells into a healthful
reaction, or they destroy them as a
dog kills a rat by shaking II, apd tho
healthy cells are stimulated by the
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