Cancer and Its Causes

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 26, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 30.

Cancer and Its Causes

The fearful malady, cancer, is becoming a fair rival to "the great white plague," tuberculosis. Of the 50,509 deaths in Paris, in 1896, 2,828 were caused by cancer, about 1 to 17. It ranks fifth among diseases as the cause of death. In the statistics of the city of Liverpool from 1840 to 1893, Dr. Roger Williams shows that there has been a gradual increase, the ratio ever diminishing from 1 in 5,646 of the population in 1840, or 1 in 129 deaths, to 1 in 1,407 of the population in 1893, or 1 in 27 deaths. It is said that a cancer is indeed rare among Jews. One of its great causes, we are persuaded, is the use of flesh as food, especially the use of pork or bacon.