GERMS IN GRASS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 July 1925, Page 10

GERMS IN GRASS.

NEW CANCER THEORY. SHEEP BLAMED. LONDON, June 26. ahe Vest London Coroner, while investigating the death of Alfred Jones, a dairyman, who had died as a result of eating infected mutton or fish, said that a friend of his, an 'ltalian professor, had found that a sheep’s gullet ■ontained germs which he believed would cause cancer. Sheep, the professor said, picked up germs from the grass, and people eating mutton and tripe were liable to contract cancer.

A Sydney surgeon, who has had considerable experience in the treatment of cancer, ridiculed the theory. ‘‘lt is utterly without scientific foundation,” be said. “To begin with, mutton and tripe are never eaten raw. Boiling' would settle all the cancer germs—if any were present, which I disbelieve. Any specialist engaged in cancer research will inform you that the prevalence of cancer ‘germs’ in grass has never been proved. The medical profession will not theorise even that cancer ‘germs’ may he discovered oni grass.” • - .