INCREASE OF CANCER.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12932, 11 October 1907, Page 7

INCREASE OF CANCER.

DUE TO COXSrarPTIOX OF AXLMAL FOODS.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copy ri gh t. XEW YORK, October 0. ' I>octor Cook Adams, reporting to the Chicago Hoard of Health, contends that statistical investigations in Europe, Great Britain, and tho United States, fully corroborate earlier Australian observations-as to the great increase of cancer, due to the increased consumption of animal Toods, particularly diseased animals.

A writer in the "Daily Mail," who recently considered tho experiments with trypsin". ;i substance, which has given very favourable results, suidi: — "T'iio death-rate from malignant di-cioP in thiis country i« not far short of 30.000 per annum, and thero camnot bo fewer than (30.000 persons enffering from malignant disease in this country at this moment. Every impartial and informed persons respects the enterprising skill of 'modern surgery, and knows that its success in dealing with cancer .us far greater now than it was only live years ago; but ie i.s also kr.o-.vn that, even on the- basis of the latest and most fortunate results, only a ti.ny .proportion, of these, patients could ; be saved by the. knife, even assuming that tho two or three mwt .successful surgeons in this field could operate upon them all inidcir the most favourable conditions. The. vast majority of these sufferers and those who are daily being: added to their ranks are therefore without hop© in th» world from any of the methods which have hitherto been employed. Experience idiows that drugs anil caustics, molassfis and violet leaves, tho high frequency current of electricity,, and their ]iko do not cure cancer. Un tho eontraiy. as Professor Yon Leyden points out, prrhaps the most vemnrkab.'o foaturo of malignant dir*ease is that is responds by incn-aM-d growth cif tho malignant tissue to all kindf. of ■mechanical, chemical, or thermal injury. To this rule there hn.s now l>een found, as he shows, ono exception. This is the injury to the living cells of a cancer which is brought about I>y trypsin, tho first and most important of the twin remedies —invth normally present in everyone—which we. -are alK>ut to disciic*."