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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 23, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 34.

FROM WHENCE COMES CANCER.

FROM my own investigation and experiments, writes Dr. W. R. Williams, in the Medical Chronicle, recently, I am convinced that among the probable causes of the dread cancer are the drinking of strong tea, the consumption of large amounts of common table salt, and the eating of flesh foods.

When any quantity of such highly-stimulating forms of nutriment as meat are ingested by persons whose cellular metabolism is defective, it seems probable that there may thus be excited in those parts of the body where vital processes are still active, such excessive cellular growth as may eventuate in cancer.

As the consumption of meat in England has increased just in proportion to the increase of cancer, and as the disease is making equal strides in Australia, where even more meat is consumed, we are justified in believing that here we have a clue which is worth following.

Personally, we have never known a vegetarian of twelve months' standing to suffer from cancer—Herald of Health, Melbourne, Aus.