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Show I I THE CITIZEN physician voted cf dreaded cancer CAUSE one dreads cancer ,and yet Every i traces that fatal Sir W. Arbuth-T- t Lane. Bart., one of the world's and dietitians, most eminent surgeons in the Dearbin an article appearing issue of June 20, orn Independent, cancer is a emphatically states that and the person that filth disease, thoroughly cleansed keeps the body cancer. He says: never need fear am I shall not die of cancer. I to prevent it. What kking measures can do. It is not jam doing anybody It is a matter only a matter of money. forbearance. of forethought and What I am doing everybody should risk of death fio if he would avoid the than from a disease more terrible tuberculosis, syphillis and a number rolled into of other awful diseases one. the great human menace. It is increasing by leaps and bounds. If anything, it is increasing more rapidly in the United States than it is in the British Isles, 5,000,000 are doomed to die of cancer if they do Unitenothing to prevent it. In the d States the doomed number is 10,-- 1 000,000 and may quite easily rise to Cancer is 15,000,000 ; ' or 20,000,000. means that at least one in ten those now living in America and This of in five are doomed to die perhaps one cancer if they do nothing to present it But for those more than 40 of the danger is far greater years of age than that Cancer seldom stnkes until the victim is at least 40. The percentage of any community that is 40 or more is but a fraction of the total. This might be called the cancer fraction. There the disease does its worst One and perhaps two out of , every five Americans of this age are doomed to die of cancer unless they do something to prevent it. And, women are in the unfortunately, greatest danger from the fact that cancer strikes them a little earlier i than it does men. We can be as free from cancer as are savages to whom the disease is nearly if not quite un Savages become canceroui nly when they come within the in fluence of civilization and wronf their bodies as we wrong ours. apparently known. A great flood of light has corn BPn cancer. We now know wha canses it. It is not the bacillus tha scientists not ns We have so long sought am yet found. It is caused by pois created in our bodies by the fooi eat. course, jcers iam speaking in a general way. are caused by now, o: A fe bruises, but i bruises would eve: if if poisons had not firs work the tissue, causes Poisons to accumulat Question jaaae cancer in else .vi dranaSe- - Nothinj was never intended t raveBng receptacle of perish he body the waste product about fo of skou be carried twene y our hours or more vj atrain are v inp at a time never built to bear th are not Bearing it. W akin& under it. We are break with cancer and a large num We 9 I her of other diseases, all of which have the same origin. There is but one cause of disease and that cause is poison. We may take in poison through the air, but we manufacture most of it within ourselves from the food that we eat. We eat three times a day and sometimes more. Our bodies should be cleared as often as we eat. Animals do not need to be told this. Savages do not need to be tola this. But we need to be told. The seeming requirements of what we call civilization have come in the path of our instincts. We eat regularly and expel irregularly. We live in a house that is called our body and we do not drain our house. What are We"? We are little cells. According to the scientists one little group is the heart, another little group is the stomach, and the combination of all the groups is the individual. We eat frequently, expel infrequently ,and poisons are set up. These poisons enter the blood stream. Every part of the body is reached. Every part of the body suffers. The body resists. It tries to bear up under the burden. It tries to set up antidotes to the poisons. It thickens the walls of parts of the itnestines to enable them to bear a load for which they were not intended, but in trying to offset one evil creates another by decreasing the capacity of the intestines. The body fights back and dies hard but it does. It does not die the day the poison is introduced. It makes a losing fight for years. But eventually the break comes. It comes where the strains of poison and the strains of life meet What I mean is that the strains of life may and usually do bear upon some parts of the body more than others. If one is doing work that requires the expenditure of a considerable amount of brain power, he puts a strain upon his nervous system. This strain might not and probably would not hurt him if the poisons that he is manufacturing within his own body were not also putting a strain upon his nervous system. The two strains meet. The man goes down with paralysis or some kindred ailment. He goes down because he did not drain the house in which his cells lived. We do such terrible things to the little cells that live in our house. Nobody would treat other persons as he treats his own cells. Imagine a man having a great house and filling it with guests, then stopping the sewer and filling the rooms each day with a number of dead cats. With the rooms reeking with foul odors we can imag-ie- n the crying and the dying of little children, who may be compared with the more delicate cells of our bodies. As the fumes become heavier we can visualize the fainting away of women. Finally, none are left but the strongest of the men, but in time they too die and the house that was once so gay is but a silent sepulcher. On the theory that most persons care about themselves than they do about anybody else we can at least imagine such treatment of guests by a host. But how can we account for such treatment of the little cells that live in our houses an dare us? There is no way to account for what civilized human beings do to themselves except to realize the fact that they do not know what they are are trying to' force our bodies to live in entirely different circumstances than human bodies ever lived before, millions of years, perhaps, we went on i doing. Wo take disease for granted. We assume that it is the inescapable fate of man, sooner or later, to have this or that disease and die with it. Nothing could be further from the truth. The nature of man is to die as a clock stops when it is run down. Death should come peacefully, at great age ,and usually during sleep. Disease of any kind is certain proof that the body has been misused. We are indicted by our ailments. What we have done is reflected in what we have. We should be proud of health and ashamed of sickness. No ill man should escape blame unless he can show that he is the vicitm of society rather than of himself. Bad housing conditions, for instance, for which no individual is to blame, may and do cause sickness, but most of our ills we create for ourselves. Anybody can see that the house in which his cells live is drained. Whoever does not see to this invites all of the death and destruction that may come to him, because bad drainage in the human body is the cause of cancer and most of the other ills that afflict mankind. Remove this1 cause and we shall have destroyed most of the diseases. Hippocrates, the great father of medicinei, knew this thousands of years ago, as did many of the ancients, but most of his followers seem to have forgotten it We physicians should go back to the sources of our information and preach more ardently what was taught so long ago; what is and always will be true that man by nature is not a poison factory; that his body is but a house in which his cells live and that to permit this house to fill up with sewage is even worse than it would be to maintain an open sewer in ones residence. One might get a breath of fresh air once in a while in such a house, but there is no escape from the poisons that one carries about in his body. They are flowing into his blood stream all the while and preparing it for all the diseases, including the worst of all cancer. Now what is the matter with the body that does not adeguately drain itself? Nothing is the matter with the body. It was made all right. The matter lies with us. We have suddenly changed our methods of living. We call this change civilzation. Part of it is good, part of it is bad. That part of it which pertains to our habits of life is mostly bad because it represents so sharp a break with our past The human body, which has been created through countless centuries of slow change, cannot in a day, a year, or a century, adapt Itself to an environment different from anything to which it has been accustomed. Force such an environment upon it and there is trouble. That is what we have done. Wo Doyouknow that LAGOON is different Its entertainment is complete n: danc- f ing, bathing, boating, concessions, parks for picnicking everything for full enjoyment. And all of the very best1 One of the very finest resorts in the west. ! 1 1 u u Don Kirkham I : and his Lagoon Novelty Orchestra ii Puts melody, rythm punch I into the music. Dancing at Lagoon gives highest enjoyment. The Pavilion is cool, the floor is smooth. 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