ESCAPING CANCER DANGER

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 15, 24 February 1939, Page 3

ESCAPING CANCER DANGER

Return to Natural Foods Urged

A Disease of Civilisation

All mankind must acknowledge the fact that we are a created machine and that running through that machine is a spirit or breath of life. The greatest affliction of mankind today is cancer and, though to some of us its cause is so evident, to the greatest world minds it is a problem of the greatest difficulty. We know irritations cause cancer, whether they be mechanical or chemical. Tar painted in succession on an animal skin causes such a malignant growth. If then, a coal tar product such as, dyes and sweetening materials are swallowed in our food

as preservatives, how much more potent they must be inside of our delicate mucous membranes than they are outside.

When the obnoxious cancer "cumour

has been removed by an operation the original cause still remains. Namely, the supplying of cancercausing substances by means of the blood, as, for instance, the eating of conserved foods. Then there is the greatest possibility that the cancerous growth will recur even though it be in another place.

Those folk and nations that live outside European civilisation and consume natural food and live a primitive life rarely have cancer. Cancer, then, is a disease of civilisation and the one common item on the menu of all such nations is food sterilisation by heat and cooking. Many a mother dies of cancer and her daughter does, too, and this is evidently brought about by the mother cooking herself into cancer and her daughter being taught by her.

(Written for The Guardian by Dr. H. T. J. Thacker, F.R.C.5.1.)

Cancer is rarely ever found until it has been in action 25 years. All preservatives such as salicylic acid, even common salt, kills the enzymes and ferments of life and digestion— these same are of a nature as elusive as the vitamines; they are vibration frequencies of who knows what voltage.

The tarring of our roadways, the fumes from motor-cars and the '. smoke from our factory and destructor chimneys are looked on as menaces to health and must be considered from a cancer point of view. Why encourage sunlight raying and hiking stunts if such a shroud of ill-omen is daily being cast over us. We have normal body cleansing in the shape of perspiration, menstruation, and normal bowel action, and it is a patent fact that, if these are allowed to lapse, disaster must soon arrive. What does it matter what j we reap hi any direction if we lose our most precious jewel, our health.

Whatever power will take us back to live normally and to be fed by Nature's raw food, that power will again put humanity into work, wages and rational enjoyment. Our greatest hope must lie with our womenfolk and they must be taught to feed iodine, fruit and iron to our internal secreting glands unspoiled by heat and cooking.

If we think of our diet for a moment it is at once evident that with every meal we take we also swallow a dose of some kind of poison. Cups of tea contain tannin and xanthin, coffee contains caffeine, a vigorous heart stimulant. Tobacco contains acrolein and nicotine, the

pots of jam contain boric acid and salicylic acid, while tinned meats, a fish, and vegetables are cremated by c heat and contain chemicals. Humans g who are thus already devitalised and g below par are not fit subjects to be bombarded with X-rays and radium i because they have been taking ex- j cess loads of unsuitable foodstuffs for ( years. i To escape the danger of this i dreaded disease of cancer: * (1) Use only such foods and * drinks as are free from injurious 1 chemicals, and these must not be too hot or too cold. (2) Use the utmost care to prevent the skin coming in contact with injurious chemicals or of their being introduced into the blood streams by ( other means. (3) See that the bowels work well every day—whole linseed is just the very thing. (4) Persons over 40 years and who never get a good perspiration should have a steam bath weekly and a good salt rub' down. Nature sometimes cures a cancer without any treatment. This has happened after a high temperature and profuse sweating as occurs in erysipelas, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and smallpox. This can be all done artificially and by rigid, ■ exact fasting, first on water, then - fruit juices and green foods. This sis rarely attempted or efficiently 11 carried out in our. health homes and ; j sospitals. > Instead millions of pounds are • spent on a chase for a cure. The _ I writer watches and reads in all j directions, and is astounded how I easily a wise audience is so easily , gulled into lassitude and any old , thing. There is just beginning a reversal of the unorthodox treat- . ments of sickness. The pioneers are looked at askance and surgery and X-ray fight onto greater mechanical efforts. That great sun of the Milky Way sends us rays through the maa tervening space of millions of miles, * of thousands of light years. These 0 rays can pierce 16 feet of lead and 'f have no doubt, a great say in the n making of our natural plant foodJ, stuffs as have those millions of beneo ficient rays that come from our own c sun.

Our most up-to-date cure gadgets are not curing "because cancer death certificates are increasing. Let us get a move oh to raw, ripe, Nature's goods.

Vivid, flame-scarred skies at night in England symbolise the newer prosperity which has at last struck Great Britain and her iron and steel industry, in which is invested £200,000,000, will unless man's emotional and digesting glands are fed food efficiencies, again be turned to the manufacture of war monsters.

A new giant tank has been erected in the Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia in a special building to house this tank. The tank is announced in the report of Dr Francis Carter Wood, the director of the Crocker Institute for Cancer Research. It will be used to explore the "no man's land" of X-rays. This tank is a substitute for the conventional X-ray tubes and will produce million-volt rays, enough to equal [three pounds of radium, and that is worth £1,200,000.

This new X-ray apparatus was discovered by David H. Sloan, of the University of California, where a similar tank has already been built.

The tank is cylindrical, nearly four feet in height and a few inches more in breadth. It will hang from steel beams in the centre of the room 25 feet long and 13 feet wide. Near its bottom are metal windows through which X-rays will pass, sufficient to treat six patients simultaneously. There will be 6,000,000 cycles a second. The interior of the tank is a vacuum. In it the X-rays are produced from the energy from an electric current of 6,000,000 cycles a second. The current fed into the machine will be comparatively low, 15,000 volts alternating. A light frequency generator inside the vacuum tank steps up this current into the energies need to produce X-rays of anything from 500,000 volts up to 1,000,000 volts.

Dr Woods's report states that X-rays up to 550,000 volts have been found to possess no more lethal power on cancer and other living tissues than lower voltages. The higher power rays tested only penetrate deeper. "There remains uninvestigated," the Wood report says, "the | voltage region lying between 550,000

and 1,000,000 volts." Theoretically, the chief advantage is of obtaining deeper tissue penetration of a higher voltage and a greater depth dose. That there will be any greater destructive effect on the cells of the cancer tumour growth is very doubtful."

Readers, just think of those rays again from the great sunof the Milky Way. Are we puny humans not doing our best to prevent penetrations to us with carbon emanations from our destructor, our hospital and business chimney fumes'? Let us all plant vegetable and fruit seeds and in our own way serve raw and fresh to, our great endocrine just those things it wants for efficiency. Perhaps the

three greatest are: lodine, calcium (lime) and iron. lodine is in sea foods (fish and oysters), spinach, parsley and tomatoes; calcium in cauliflower (raw and cooked), milk and tomatoes; iron in raw citrus fruits, spinach, cabbage, and swede turnips. Exercise of the whole of your body and mind brings energy. Specifics are to cure but while enervating habits and wrong, dead foods are continued they are travesties of intelligence. Minimising that ignores the influence of habits and the overstimulating or depressing influence, of environment, is illogical and is unworthy of any profession that* boasts of Scientific attainments,