The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14
ON THE PREVENTION OF CANCER.

ON The PREVENTION OF CANCER.
The late DIR. Sem said that cancer
was a disease of civilization, and that
the best preventive was clean, plain
living. He also said that the disease
was incurable except in the ~incipient
stage and then only by the knife. DA
William Mayo, the distinguished sur
geon OF Rochester, Mimi, said of can
Ger of the stomach: There is some
thing fundamentally wrong in the food
or in the cooking of civilized men that
gives such a preponderance (nearly
one-third) to precancerous conditions
in the gastric region. The amount of
meat consumed undoubtedly has some
thing to do with the prevalence of
%concer."
DR.. Williams, the great English
specialist, says that cancer has in.
creased in England just in proportion
as flesh eating has increased, and
traces a definite relationship between
the two.
In Germany, England and the
United States one in eight women past
thirty years die of cancer. 1t is esti-
mated that there are three hundred
thousand cases of this terrible malady
in the United States today. These
cases are chiefly among the well-fed
and particularly those who use large
quantities of meat and alcohol. Cancer
is four times as prevalent in northern
Europe, where most of the meats and
liquors are used, than in southern
Europe where the diet is more veg
tartan in character. The mortality is
highest in Holland and Switzerland,
where the diet is largely protein, be.
ing in the form Of cheese and meat,
and where much coffee and beer are
drunk. In China, in those provinces
where the diet is chiefly rice, cancer
is unknown.
A certain sect of Russians in Can
ada, ten thousand in number, who alb
stain from the use of fish, flesh, foul,
tea, coffee and alcohol, but partake
freely of vegetables and honey, and
are s~crupulously clean, rarely ever
know disease. Their manager says
there has been a case of cancer
among them.
Cancer is a disease of lower ami.
mails as well as of men. 1t shows the
same prevalence among fesh-eating
animals. Those fish which feed on
fish are subject to cancer. 1t is also
common among cats and dogs, rats
and mice, but rare among cows, sheep,
horses and goats. DR.. Ehrlich found
that mice living on a rice diet cannot
be inoculated with cancer, while those
living on a meat diet are readily moe
ulated, the tumor growing rapidly and
ending in death. Cancer is thus shown
to be a disease OF ~flesh-eating men and
of fesh-eating animals.
1t is among civilized people who are
out of harmony with nature that ma.
lignant disease is reaching it's height.
tuberculosis, which has held the fore
ground as the universal scourge of
humanity, may soon be III distanced
by cancer. Cancer does not develop in
healthy tissue, but in tissue rendered
vulnerable by improper living.
1t follows that We who would avoid
cancer must avoid excuses in meat,
alcohol, tea, coffee and condiments.
By this means we maintain the aka
Unity of the blood which gives the
body resistive power. Flesh eating,
by increasing the acid contents of the
cell, diminishes the alkalinity of the
blood, while a diet of fruit, nuts. vege-
tables and cereals increase the aka
Unity.