The Nome daily nugget., 1915-07-09

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 Dr. l.. Duncan Bulkley, head of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital End Avenue and 18th Street, of whom Superintendent Charles B. Grimshaw of the Roosevelt Hospital says: Dr. Bulkley, one of the best skin and can cer specialists in the country, claims that cancer is usually caused by inn proper eating and drinking. It can be treated by eliminating meat, alcohol, coffee and tea from the diet, and pro- bably would disappear as q disease in a generation or so if n vegetable diet and the simple life were the rule among civilized people. Surgery can only remove the results of the disease. and does not touch the cause.
 The excessive consumption of meat is without doubt to blame for much of Amerca's disease. Many leading med ical authorities blame an excessive meat diet for the great prevalence of cancer in the United States where each person disposes of 172 pounds of m at a year.
 In England the yearly meat con- sumption is 260 pounds per capita, in Italy, where the per capita consump- tion of meat is smallest, the death rate from cancer Is also the lowest. The consumption of meat per capita in this country has reached the enormous rate of 172 pounds, and in the last five years cancer deaths have been increased by seven or eight per cent. Practically the same conclusions can be drawn from the use of coffee, tea and alcohol.
 Cancer is a disease of civilization. says Dr. Bulkley. "lt was unknown among primitive people. It is increasing the world over with Il mortality of 90 per cent of those once affected In the United States the mortality is at the rate of 50000 year, In New York City alone there are twelve deaths daily from this great red plague. Hitherto cancer has been regarde , ai- most wholly from it's surgical aspects. hri relatively little importance h"s been paid to the medical aspects. New eroWths have been removed by the knife X-ray and radium. but there has been no attempt to regulate the living conditions of the patient and his diet In order to prevent recurrent malisent growth.
 "Cancer mortality is lowest where conditions of life are hardest and greatest where wealth and leisure eX- ist This was proved by statistics gathered by Dr. Roger Williams The richer and more abundant the food the more liable one is to cancer lndolencc and gluttony, which frequently come with wealth. are contributory causes to the metabolic changes or distur- bances in the constitution. Complex living makes for a nervous condition which disturbes the balance of the in- gradients of the body. The secretions of the various organs are thus dis turbed.
 "The aim of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital in treating patients is to secure the most perfect blood stream possible. This is accomplished by sim pie living, frequent bathing, internal and external perfect elimination fresh air and sunlight. perfect mastieation' avoidance of excesses. and in addition to proper medication, to secure the diet. There are, of course, times when the knife should be used. Our treat ment is. of course, a long one, and re- 0uires much patience"
 Cornell has recently adopted Dr. Buikleys treatment of cancer, and will soon open a research department and clinic
 Dre Bulkley's conclusions that the hope of cancer patients lies in chang ing their diet is the result of forty years experience.
 Too much attention cannot be paid to mouth and teeth. On May 2Sth the .OOO children of the public schools of New York City bought tooth brushes for the first celebration of Tooth Brush Day The entire week was Hygienic Week, and was devoted to the scrub ping of teeth and dental hygiene.
 At 9 o'clock all the children were taught what first aid to the teeth means, and the serious results of ne- glecting them. This was done by trained specialists, prominent dentists of the city 150 of whom volunteered to aid the Board of Education. They spoke for an hour in the schools.
 Friday, Tooth Brush Day, saw drills