The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-17

pr Robert Abee, senior surgeon of St. Lukes hospital New York city, sheds new light on the causes of can- cer, and particularly cancer of the mouth. He presents a calm but scath- ing arraignment of tobacco. when 1t Is smoked or chewed in excessive quan- titles. Of one hundred victims of mouth cancer studied, only ten were women. Of the ninety men, all but one were inveterate smokers. Most of them smoked cigars. to the number of three to twenty a day. Five smoked only cigarettes. One consumed fifty a day. Many used a pipe, which often of the pipe steam allowed the hot smoke to come upon the tongue Thir- teen mad cancer inside the cheek and all of these cnewed. In every case, the cancer started where the tobacco quio was held in the cheek, or on the edge ot the palate or tongue near by.
 Chronic irritation, Dr. Abbe says may be set down as fundamental cause The use of tobacco may be the original cause of the irritation, as when hot smoke from a pipe continu- ally burns the tongue, or the tobacco may aggravate the irritation when it mas once appeared.
 Often a broken tooth or sharp tooth edge causes the original infiam- mation that leads to the cancerous growth. About one-tenth of the pat tents plainly owed this affliction either to a rough tooth or to hot burning drinks. or both. The other nine-tenths of the cases are chargeable to tobacco.
 After such a warning 1t should take who smokes excessively to cut down his tobacco ration and if he Is troubled with a sore mouth, to cut it out alto- gether. Usually the only deterrent from excessive smoking is bad nerves. But cancer Is worse than nerves.
 Eat tho Pineapple.
 The partaking of a slice of pineapple ater a meal is quite in accordance with physiological indications, since fresh pineapple juice contains re- markably active digestive principle similar to pepsin. This principle has been termed "bromelin," and so pow erful is it's action upon proteids that it will digest as much as 1000 times ios weight within a few hours. Its digestive activities varies in accord ance with the kind of proteid to which it is subjected. When a slice of fresh pineapple is placed upon raw beef steak the surface of the steak becomes gradually gelatinous, owing to the di- gestive action of the enzyme of the juice.
 Of course, digestive agents exist also in other fruits, but when 1t Is considered that an average sized pine apple will yield nearly two pints of juice it will be seen that the digestive action of the whole fruit must be enormous. The activity of this pecu- liar digestive agent is destroyed in the cooked pineapple. but unless the pine- apple is preserved by heat there Is nc reason why the timed fruit should not retain the digestive power.
 Unlike pepsin. the digestive princi- ple of the pineapple will operate in an acid, neutral. or even alkaline me- dium, according to the kind of proteid to which it is presented. It may there fore be assumed that the pineapple enzyme would not only aid the work and digestion in the stomach, but would continue that action in the in- testinal tract. Pineapple. 1t may be added, contains much indigestible matter of the nature of woody fibre. lut 1t Is quite possible that the de- cieedly digestive properties of the juice compensate for this fact.
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 Cure or Wrinkles.
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