CAUSE OF CANCER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 6

CAUSE OF CANCER

Bir,—Bir Loui> Baimcil has slated recently in his address Lo the Empire Cancer Sociciv that if ca' ccr sufferers would make a point of vsiling this surgeon in the earliest slagc.- possible, much could b.* done to aii< . mie the suffering. There are many thing- that are more important to C.e averagecitizen concerning canver which .Sir Louis has failed to mention. Cancer is not a disease in itself out a name given to a culminating * point in the degenerative metabolistic process of the sufferer. That is to say cancer cells will not and cannot develop Y. healthy tissue cells. They can on.) dr. chip in •culture media conducive to tfi<*:i development. Sir Louie, lam sure si , would render a greater service by t».lin.g uhow to prevent our bodies getting full of toxines, and thus proven; cancer getting a foothold in our bod’C;-. instead of telling us what to do al'tei we get cancer, more so since real /an.-cr causes are few and far between no matter to whom we go for advice. <n any stage of the disease. Supposing Ihat cancer is started, will that process cb-anse the body? No! Will it make us immune front Bright’s disease, cirrhosis oi the liver, he -.rt diseases, arltjiai s< Jcrosis, etc.? The body which is ripe enough for vanccr is ripe enough for all the above maladies, each one as deadly as cancer. Dr. Barrnett’s advice, apart from doing no good, is actually harmful. It will give many people* a free licence to indulge in an orgy of artificial living under pretense that should they develop cancer their .surgeon can save them if they go to him soon enough. Dr. Barrnett should tell us, sir, that cancer is the disease of civilisation. Mechanical labour-saving devices have minimised greatly our mu>cular tasks. The result is tmil, our spines, the very foundations oi our life and health, arc all topsy tu.xy. O.ir circulations are resultantly poor, ano to add to our sorrow we reline our food so that we are starved foi ncccs sary elements which our bodies icquiru. Then we shut out all the fresh air ano sunshine wc possibly can. I’he Yonder, sir, is that there is no more cancer about. It is of no use asking Sir Louis for reform, sir! Progress never come.from pursuer but from pursued. Dr. Barrnett and the average physician has built his surgical prestige not 'on any scientific tenet (accidents excepted) but on the ignorance of the average prospective surgical case, wn > us totally ignorant on the subject, and who bu.ysurgery like a Winsconsin farmer buys stocks in Wall Street. However, the, clouds are breaking. We have at least one surgeon who has had enough fortitude to adnfit th.it the orthodoxy was wrong, an 1 who has dared to join our fast-growing cult oi “quacks.” Several others have been forcibly impressed and are secretly dabbling into quaekery. But the best news sir, is that the general public is taking up the war cry, and that is what really matters. The public will alwavs get what it wants, providing it shouts long enough and loud enough. And tne Government department w.’l teach ns something about health, and not or sickness, as it does now. S. I. NOLAN D.C., PH. C. 281 Victoria Avenue. Wai-.gr.nui.