Is Not Hereditary — May Be Imparted by Contact — The Causes of the Disease — The Most Successful Treatments
By D. H. KRESS, M.D.
New England Sanitarium, Melrose, Massachusetts
It is estimated that in the United States alone no fewer than one hundred thousand persons are afflicted with cancer at all times, and that over seventy thousand die of the disease each year. In civilized countries, the deaths from cancer have increased very rapidly during the past thirty years.
If this increase continues, the mortality from the disease will soon equal that from tuberculosis. At present, one woman out of every ten, after reaching the age of thirty-five, is doomed to die of this disease.
A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Whether the disease is due to a germ, or whether it is a wild growth of tissue, has not yet been fully determined. One thing of great importance has been discovered, and that is, cancer can be transplanted from one animal to another, and is therefore a communicable disease.
There has been a universal belief that cancer runs in families. Some persons may find comfort in the knowledge that the disease is not hereditary. However, it does run in families. But if a mature person has cancer whose father or mother had it, the probability is that both parent and offspring lived in such a way as to induce it; that “like causes, acting on like organisms in succeeding generations, produce like results.”
PREDISPOSING CAUSES OF CANCER
Anything that defiles the blood acts as a predisposing cause of cancer. The free use of foods that are impure, or that through decay in the alimentary tract form impurities, tends to pave the way for cancer. Meat not merely contains a large amount of these impurities, but it readily undergoes decay in the human alimentary canal, thus forming poisonous irritants which excite the tissue to become abnormal and degenerate.
Dr. W. A. Jamieson, physician for diseases of the skin at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, in discussing the causes of cancer, expresses the belief that the increase in the consumption of butcher’s meat, and especially the extensive use of beef, is one of the leading causes of the greater prevalence of cancer in modern times. There are many other authorities who hold to the same view.
Dr. Burney Yeo says, “Among other evils attending an animal dietary, one is that it favors the tendency, where it exists, to the development of cancer.”
In the report of the mortality due to cancer among the workers in Packington, who live largely on meats, Dr. Guilfor shows an enormous prevalence of cancer among the workers. In the statistics furnished, foreigners of the so-called flesh-eating nations reveal the highest death-rate, in marked contrast to the nations that consume fifty to forty per cent less meat per capita.
VEGETARIANS ARE IMMUNE
From returns collected in England by Dr. Roger Williams, it appears that of one hundred and ninety-three cancer patients, ninety-nine had been moderate eaters of meats, seventy-eight used little, and sixteen much, and “there was not a single strict vegetarian among them.” The orthodox Jews, who adhere closely to the laws of Moses, and abstain from the use of pork, rarely suffer of the disease.
The following table, obtained from the Hon. R. Russell’s work on “Strength and Diet,” shows how the prevalence of cancer stands related to the use of meats in various countries:
In England
The cancer rate is high.
The flesh eaten is much.
In Ireland (South)
The cancer rate is rather low.
The flesh eaten is little.
In Italy
The cancer rate is moderate.
The flesh eaten is moderate.
In Saxony
The cancer rate is very high.
The flesh eaten is much.
In Hungary
The cancer rate is very low.
The flesh eaten is little.
In Sardinia, where the deaths caused by cancer are less than two to ten thousand, and in Bombay, where in 1875 the deaths due to this disease were at the rate of only one to every ten thousand, the use of meat is almost unknown. In Persia the disease is seldom met; and in Egypt, Tunis, and Algeria there is a decided immunity.
PREVALENT AMONG THE MEAT EATERS
In Canada, the United States, and Australia, the death-rate from cancer ranges from two hundred eighty to four hundred seventy out of every ten thousand deaths. The disease is four hundred times as prevalent in Australia as in Bombay.
This is not a mere coincidence. The people of Sardinia, Bombay, Persia, and Algeria are practically non-carnivorous, while Australians are the greatest meat eaters in the world.
Another point of interest is, in Australia, more meat is consumed in the rural districts than in the cities. We find that cancer is more common in the rural districts of Australia than in the cities, while in Europe and America, where meat is more freely used in the cities, the reverse is the case, the disease prevailing more in the cities than in the country. All of this points to meat as one of the chief causative factors in the production of cancer.
The chief predisposing cause of cancer is a vitiated blood stream, resulting from the absorption of impurities found in meats, or of highly toxic impurities produced by putrefaction of meats in the alimentary canal. Any habit, however, that tends to lower the vitality of the body tissue, undoubtedly acts as a predisposing cause.
The excessive use of salt, beer, tea, coffee, and tobacco, and the breathing of impure air, act as contributing causes of the disease. Animal fats, butter, and sugar all favor the development of products that pave the way for cancer.
WORST AMONG THE OVERFED
Cancer does not, as a rule, affect the scantily fed. Its victims are chiefly among the high livers, or the overfed.
Cancerous growths usually develop in tissue that has been subjected to irritation or to injury. Cancer of the lip, the mouth, or the throat from the use of tobacco, is for this reason practically confined to men, and cancer of the breast to women. The stiff corset, by keeping up constant pressure and irritation, and the excitation due to nursing, are common causes.
Pepper, mustard, pickles, and other direct irritants, and sugar, jellies, greasy foods, and soft, starchy foods, which favor fermentation and the formation of irritating products, act as exciting causes of cancer of the stomach and liver. Since dietetic errors are equally common among men and women, we find cancer of the stomach and liver equally distributed among men and women.
CAREFUL LIVING WILL PREVENT IT
While cancer is not transmitted from parents to children, yet children may inherit an inferior organism or a predisposition to cancer; but if careful in living, they need never die of the disease.
Cancer is not unusual among animals that are kept confined, and whose surroundings are unhygienic. This is probably the chief cause of its prevalence among cows. The prevalence of the disease among animals is one of the sources of its growing frequency among men. Often in cutting up meat, butchers encounter internal cancerous tumors. These they remove, but the remainder of the carcass is always sold. The cancer cells frequently circulate in the blood, and are deposited in various parts of the body of the animal. Cancer in fish is common. By the use of infected meat, the cancer cell may be directly transplanted from the animal to man; and those who have previously filled their tissues with impurities through improper habits, naturally fall victims to it.
THE BEST TREATMENT FOR CANCER
Surgery is indicated as soon as the growth makes its appearance. In removal of superficial cancers, escharotics or plasters may be employed. The results are often disappointing. Sir James Paget, a most distinguished surgeon, in speaking of surgery as a cure for cancer, said, “As to the influence of an operation in prolonging life, I believe the removal of the local disease makes no material difference in the average duration of life.”
Dr. Mayo, America’s chief surgeon, in his outline of pathology, wrote, “After amputation of a cancerous breast under the most favorable circumstances, I believe that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the disease returns.”
For treatment to be effective, a cancer should be removed at the earliest possible opportunity. The needed reforms in eating, drinking, etc., must be made. When this is done, there is justifiable hope for permanent relief in many cases.
CAREFULNESS IN DIET A MAIN HELP
In order to avoid cancer, or to rid the system of the disease after it exists, animal flesh as an article of food should be aban14doned. Cheese, butter, sugar, and other foods that readily decay or ferment in the alimentary tract, and thus produce irritants which, when absorbed, tend to give rise to inflammatory processes in the tissues of the body, should be eaten sparingly or not at all.
Well-baked breads, corn flakes, puffed rice, zwieback, shredded wheat biscuits, and unfermented breads, thoroughly baked and well masticated, are safe articles of food. Fresh fruits, as pineapples, grape fruit, oranges, apples, grapes, peaches, etc., should be freely used. Cooked vegetables readily ferment, and should therefore be used in but small quantities. Raw vegetables, as celery, lettuce, cabbage, etc., aid in keeping the alimentary canal sterile, and prevent the formation of irritants. Ripe olives and olive-oil, or a moderate amount of nuts, should be substituted for butter and other animal fats. Figs and persimmons may take the place of sugar, if sweets are desired. Salt should be used sparingly. Pepper, mustard, and spices should be given up entirely.
CLEANSING THE TISSUES AND STARVING THE CANCER
If the patient has an abundance of flesh, a complete fast for a week will be found beneficial. During this time, half a glassful of pure distilled or soft water should be taken at intervals of one half hour. At the end of the fast, subacid fruits may form the exclusive diet for another week, and then the well-baked cereals may be added. Fresh fruits and raw vegetables may form the diet for several months.
The purpose is not to starve the patient, but to cleanse the tissues, and thus starve the cancer.
Careful adherence to a vegetarian dietary not only tends to prevent cancer, but in one case that came under my observation a cure was effected in this manner. I know of a number of cases where such a dietary was adopted by patients after a surgical operation, and in most of these cases the cancer did not return.
I am convinced if the regime outlined were followed religiously, the prevalence of cancer could be reduced to a minimum.
Heaven
By Editor
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How the Lord Turned My Captivity
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ON my return home from a distance, I was stricken down with a frightful infection, a veritable blood-poisoning. In a few days, the fierce fever was subdued, but my entire system showed plainly that it had been overwhelmed by some virulent toxin. For several weeks I was confined to my bed.
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A moment later, there flashed into my mind the thought that "the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends." Job 42:10. I immediately got out of bed and began to dress. When I was nearly through, Mrs. Paulson returned to my room and wanted to know what I was doing. I said I was going down to pray for that patient. She said, "Why, we have just been to her room and had a special season of prayer." To which I replied, "Nevertheless, I also am going down and pray for her."
I felt a sweet peace come into my soul as I knelt by her bedside, and appreciated, perhaps as I never had before, the wonderful privilege of prayer. Suffice it to say that the woman had a successful operation, experienced scarcely an ache or pain afterward, and made a most marvelous recovery. She firmly believed that God in a very special manner heard and answered prayer in her behalf.
I happened to glance out of the window as I left her room, and saw one of our young men sitting out on the veranda. Word had reached me that he was passing through a great trial and was rapidly backsliding. It came to me forcibly that he needed prayer as much as the sick woman did, so I went to him and had a good heart-to-heart talk with him. We knelt down together in my office. He confessed his sins and shortcomings, and most earnestly reconsecrated himself to God; and as he rose from his knees, he took me by the hand, and thanked me for the interest I had taken in his spiritual welfare. From that time he has had a progressive experience, and bids fair to become a most successful worker in God's vineyard.
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The War Storm Spreading
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TURKEY has at last been drawn into this Old World conflict, which was certainly bad enough already. And since Turkey has been drawn into it, there is hardly a possibility that Italy and the Balkan States can be kept out. Strong influences are brought to bear upon Italy to have her join in the strife. Her war party is so vigorous in its activities that quite likely by the time this paper reaches our readers, she will be lined up in the conflict, and possibly the Balkan States will have followed her.
How these things show the mad spirit of war that is in the world! And how literally do they fulfil the great word of the prophet, that in the time when the Judgment hour was pending, the nations of earth would be enraged! Men have been talking peace, because they were counting on the "Christian nations" to keep the peace. It was recently pointed out by a leading editor in Montreal that "if this were not an epoch of sham and hypocrisy, the fact that nations are making use of their tools of destruction would not cause so loud an outcry of astonishment and horror."
We do have a loud outcry against the war; but nevertheless, all the nations involved so far, with the exception of Turkey and Japan, are what are called the great Christian nations of the Old World. Now, if their Christianity were genuine, they would not be embroiled in this war. Hence the truthfulness of the Montreal editor's assertion concerning the sham and hypocrisy of this time.
The cruelties and the barbarities of war are in no sense related to Christianity. If an individual will take the pains to search the Old Testament records which tell of God's directing the movements of ancient Israel in times of war, he will find that the nations which Israel was commissioned to destroy were so degraded and hopelessly vile that the only merciful thing to do was to destroy them.
God destroyed the old world by a flood, and He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by fire, for the reason that wickedness had become so great that the condition was absolutely hopeless, and their destruction was the only merciful course. In like manner, nations were visited by destructive wars; but we have the record of God's waiting four hundred years before sending war upon the Amorites until their iniquities would become full.
God does destroy hopeless wickedness — sometimes in one way, and sometimes in another. But He does not lead in the ordinary wars, even though the people that are engaged in them may be professing His name; and it is wicked for ministers of the gospel, who pretend to understand and know His word, to teach that cruelties of ordinary war have the authority and direction of God.
For wise purposes, God may not restrain in some of these wars; but He has foretold that the spirits of demons would be the power working in the times in which we are living. One of the characteristics of Satan is to seek, in fiendish delight, to charge his deeds upon God, and get men to believe that He is the author of them.
Appeals of the Suffering and Destitute
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IN the midst of plenty and of peace, it is difficult for us to realize the suffering of the homeless, starving millions of war-stricken Europe. Their appeals are coming to us for bread and for clothing to keep them from perishing. These appeals must not be disregarded. It is our duty, under such circumstances, to help to the limit of our ability. We seek to keep this matter before our readers each week, because it is urgent.
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Officers of Law Abetting Burglaries
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A YEAR or so ago, Chicago was in the lime-light among the reformers who were working to suppress vice, and such an excellent work was done that very many people thought Chicago was going to be cleaned up.
But an active attorney for the state who has been working quite commendably and heroically in Chicago during recent months, finds that "we have evidence to show that some detectives not only share the booty of pickpockets, but actually travel with them in streetcars, suggesting victims, and standing ready to aid in case of detection."
These plagues of crime break out in one city after another throughout the world. They show that regardless of our apparently exalted civilization, we are infested with crowds of criminals, many of whom masquerade in the garb of gentility and refinement. Men and women should learn how to look at existing facts when they are considering the conditions of this world, rather than to be influenced by the clamorous talk of men who disregard the facts and insist upon teaching us that the world is getting better all the time. One city after another is "cleaned up," according to the records; but the next time it has to be cleaned up, often it is discovered that the last state is worse than the first.
The efforts of our reformers, however, and our law-abiding citizens who are combating these things, are not without effect, and they should be encouraged in their work; for what an awful condition this world would be in but for those who are exposing and opposing lawlessness and crime!
But we must not make the mistake of believing that men will be successful in converting this world through the civilizing reforms that are advocated. The Bible is the one beacon that shows what we may expect, and in its light we can see the outcome clearly. Unless we are guided by its light, we shall have one surprise after another, until finally we see the world go down in its everlasting ruin at the second coming of Christ.
The World Getting Better
By Editor
IN the face of every kind of evidence to the contrary, men continue to insist that the world is constantly growing better and better. Of course it is encouraging to know that there are thousands upon thousands of men and women in the world, but not of it, who manifest the strongest characters, and are as stanch supporters of righteousness as have been seen in any age in the world's history. In fact, we may know that the conditions in this time will develop men and women who will be as strong morally as any generation in the past has ever produced. Men like Elijah and Moses will stand up for God and right; for the triumphant song that will be sung by the redeemed from the last generation is to be the song of Moses as well as the song of the Lamb, and the message of God to the world in the last days is to go with the spirit and power of Elijah.
But while these forces are working mightily for God, we read definitely from the book of one of His prophets whose writing was to be sealed until "the time of the end," that while "many shall be purified, and made white, and tried," yet "the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand."
There is not a single ray of hope held out to us, in the word of God anywhere, that the greedy, crime-laden, wicked world will ever become any better; but on the other hand, we are told that it will grow worse and worse.
These facts need to be kept in mind constantly, that we may not be deceived by the popular clamor of this time, and hence be lost in the whirlpool of iniquities that will engulf those who the Master has told us will go in large numbers down the broad way to destruction.
