INDEX
- Abderhalden, defensive ferments in cancer, 78
- Abernethy on vegetarian diet, 136
- Aborigines, freedom from cancer of, 48, 116
- Abstemiousness, effect on cancer, 139
- Acid, amino nitrogen, increased in cancer, 91
- Acid intoxication in cancer, 77
- Acidosis in cancer, 80
- Acids, oxyproteic, in the urine, increased in cancer, 90
- Addison’s disease, 97
- Adrenals, relation to cancer, 98
- Africa, absence of cancer in, 50, 52
- Agamogenesis, relation to cancer, 72
- Age affecting cancer, 22
- Ages of patients with cancer, 176
- Agnew on surgery in cancer, 170
- Alcohol, relation to cancer, 120
- Alkalinity of blood, diminished in cancer, 77
- Amino-acid nitrogen, increased in cancer, 91
- Ammonia fraction of nitrogen, increased in cancer, 91
- Amylopsin in cancer, 99
- Anabolism and cancer, 33
- Anæmia in cancer, 74
- Animal food a cause of cancer, 50, 51, 52, 55, 63, 69, 110, 113, 116, 117, 132, 138, 141
- Animals, cancer in, 43
- Argentine Republic, cancer in, 57
- Australia, cancer in, 48
- Auto-intoxication and cancer, 155
- Autonomous action of cells, 33
- Bainbridge, local nature of cancer, 30
- Baltimore, cancer in, 65
- Banks, Sir William, on diet in cancer, 61
- Bashford, 55
- Beard, trypsin in cancer, 99
- Beatson’s operation, 102
- Beebe, diet and cancer, 80
- Beirut, rarity of cancer in, 56
- Bell, cancer from neglect of hygienic laws, 132
- Beneke, diet in cancer, 115
- Benratt, rarity of cancer in India, 53
- Betel chewing cancer, 54
- Biedl, hormone formation, 163
- Bio-chemistry of cancer, 39, 79, 83
- Blood changes in cancer, 74, 191
- frequent study of, in cancer, 160
- Blumenthal, oxyproteic acids increased in cancer, 90
- Boston, cancer in, 65
- Bowel action and cancer, 155, 157
- Braithwaite, plainer fare and less of it, 154
- salt and cancer, 129
- Brazil, rarity of cancer in, 57
- Breast, carcinoma of, 176
- non-cancerous tumors of, 178
- Bristol, disturbance of chemical equilibrium causing cancer, 143
- British Guiana, rarity of cancer in, 50
- Burnham, blood changes in cancer, 76
- Butter, valuable in cancer, 153
- Buttner, a fleshless diet, 154
- Cachexia in cancer, 74, 77
- Caffeine, nitrogen in, 119
- percentage of, in coffee, 119
- Cahen on Beatson’s operation, 102
- Calcium salts, effect on cancer, 101
- Cancer in the occupied and unoccupied, 130
- Carcinoma, personal statistics of, 174
- Casein sometimes allowable in cancer, 153
- Cases, personal, of cancer, 180–197
- Catabolism and cancer, 33
- Causes of cancer, 27
- Centrosomes in cancer, 34, 85
- Cheese sometimes allowable in cancer, 154
- Chemistry of cancer, 39, 79, 83
- Chicago, cancer in, 65
- China, rarity of cancer in, 55
- Chittenden’s experiments on nutrition, 112
- Chlorides in the urine, diminished in cancer, 92
- Cholesterin, relation to cancer, 83
- Chromosomes in cancer, 85
- Civilization, cancer a disease of, 44, 46, 50, 68, 109, 117
- Clinical considerations, 170
- Coffee, consumption in United States, 118
- Cohnreich, blood in cancer, 76
- Cold storage, relation of, to cancer, 109
- Composition of human body, 107
- Conclusions, 170, 203
- Constipation and cancer, 157
- Contagiousness excluded, 19
- Cooper, Sir Astley on constitutional nature of cancer, 139
- Creoles in Africa, freedom from cancer of, 52
- Cytology of cancer, 74
- Danger from thyroid in cancer, 164
- Deaths from cancer in New York City, 145
- in United States, 144
- De Bloeme, Swart, and Terwen, imperfect nitrogen partition in cancer, 90
- Defective urinary excretion and cancer, 158
- Deficiency of urinary solids in cancer, 88
- Definition of cancer, 30
- Degrez, imperfect nitrogen disintegration in cancer, 91
- Denmark, cancer in, 82
- Demineralization and cancer, 113
- Diabetes, relation of to cancer, 95
- Diet, effect of simple, in cancer, 121
- relation of, to cancer,
- 46, 51, 53, 55, 57, 61, 63, 67, 80, 106, 115, 116, 133, 198
- Dietetic treatment of cancer, 171
- Disordered metabolism the cause of cancer, 74
- Ductless glands in cancer, 97
- Duration of cancer before treatment, 177
- Early treatment of cancer, medically, 147, 178, 208
- surgically, 177
- Eating, wrong- and over-, and cancer, 152
- Egypt, rarity of cancer in, 51, 57
- Ehrlich, effect of diet on cancer, 37
- Einhorn, Kahn, and Rosenblum, imperfect nitrogen partition in cancer, 90
- Embryonic rests in cancer, 23, 25, 72
- Endocrinous glands, relation of, to cancer, 100
- England, cancer in, 51, 57, 61
- increase of cancer, with meat consumption, 116
- Environmental change and cancer, 59
- Enzymes, autolytic, in cancer tissue, 83
- Equilibrium of tissue elements, 111
- Esmarck and Oldehop, vegetarian diet in cancer, 115
- Etiology of cancer, 74
- Ewing, change in polar axis of cells in cancer, 34
- relation of cholesterin to cancer, 83
- Far East, rarity of cancer in, 55, 56
- Fiji Islands, rarity of cancer in, 50
- Fletcher, imperfect insalivation and cancer, 94
- France, cancer in, 62
- Frequency of cancer, 43
- Functional kidney derangement and cancer, 158
- Geographical distribution of cancer, 43
- “Germ of cancer,” 19
- Gigantism, 97
- Gout, relation to cancer, 72, 81
- Gratifying the taste, a cause of cancer, 108
- Gruner, toxicity of cancer juice, 78
- Gwyer, thymus feeding in cancer, 101
- Haig, cures of cancer by dietary restrictions, 141
- Harrower, relation of ductless glands to cancer, 97
- Heredity, influence of, 20
- Heterologous elements in cancer, 41
- Highest cancer mortality, 62
- Hislop and Fenwick, diet and cancer, 50
- Holland, high cancer mortality in, 118
- Hormones, relation of, to cancer, 100
- Hormone therapy in cancer, 162
- Hungary, low cancer mortality in, 118
- Hutchinson, amount of caffeine in tea and coffee, 119
- Hygienic laws, neglect of, a cause of cancer, 132
- Hyperacidity and cancer, 33
- Ichthyol locally in cancer, 166, 167
- Ideally correct blood stream and cancer, 149
- Increase of cancer, 47
- in the United States, 66
- Incurable cancer, 146
- Independent cell action, 73
- Indians, North American, rarity of cancer in, 67
- India, rarity of cancer in, 53
- Infectious diseases and cancer, 29
- Inoperable cancer, 146
- Insalivation, thorough, importance of in cancer, 95
- Internal secretions in cancer, 96–103
- Intestinal fermentation in cancer, 92, 155
- Intolerance of certain articles a cause of disease, 127
- Intoxication, intestinal, and cancer, 155
- Iron, value of, in cancer, 161
- Irritation, local, and cancer, 124
- Isenberg on vegetarian diet in cancer, 142
- Italy, low cancer with low meat consumption, 63
- Jones, blood in cancer, 76
- Kahle, silica retention in cancer, 98
- “Kangri burn” cancer, 54, 126
- Keith, Skene, iron in cancer, 161
- Kellogg, absence of cancer with normal metabolism, 151
- Kerry, Ireland, low cancer mortality, 64
- Kessler, sulphur partition in cancer, 122
- Kidneys, faulty excretion and cancer, 157
- Korea, rarity of cancer in, 57
- Laboratory study of cancer, 175, 191
- Lambe on vegetarian diet, 136
- Lane, Sir Arbuthnot, intestinal stasis and cancer, 155
- Latham on cancer of the unoccupied, 61
- Leucocytosis in cancer, 75
- Lithæmia, relation to cancer, 72
- Liver, condition of in cancer, 91
- Local irritation and cancer, 21, 124
- medical treatment, 165
- Lott, Beatson’s operation for cancer, 102
- Lowest cancer mortality, 60, 64
- Lucerne, cancer in, 62
- Luxurious living a cause of cancer, 68, 138, 199
- McCann, erroneous preparation of foods, 123
- McGregor, absence of cancer in Fiji Islands, 50
- Madden, absence of cancer in Africa, 50
- Malaria and cancer, 21
- Mastication, thorough, importance of in cancer, 95
- Mayo, acidity and cancer, 124
- Meat consumption,
- Meat, relation to cancer, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63, 116
- Medical treatment of cancer, 135, 154
- Melanesians, exempt from cancer, 50
- Mental depression, influencing cancer, 86
- Merriam, meat diet a cause of cancer, 141
- Metabolism, disordered, the cause of cancer, 74
- Mineral disturbances in the system in cancer, 122
- Mitosis, cell, relation to cancer, 85
- Mortality from cancer 90 per cent., 144
- Murphy on surgery in cancer, 171
- Myxœdema, 97
- Nature of cancer, 15, 29
- Negroes, rarity of cancer in, 52, 67
- Nervous strain, relation to cancer, 85
- New York City, deaths from cancer in, 65, 145
- negro death rate from cancer, 67
- New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, 8, 172
- New Zealand, cancer in, 50
- Nitrogen disintegration, imperfect in cancer, 91
- Nitrogenous diet and cancer, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63, 81, 116
- Non-cancerous tumors of breast, 178
- Normal body cells and cancer, 31, 41, 70
- Nowell, serum therapy, 165
- Nuclei of cells, in cancer, 84
- Nucleo-proteids in cancer, 82
- Nutrition and cancer, 35, 36
- Occupation and cancer, 28
- Ovaries, internal secretion of, relation to cancer, 102
- Over-eating and cancer, 152
- Over-indulgence, effect of, 68
- Oxyproteic acid, relation to cancer, 90
- Packard, disturbance of mineral elements in blood, in cancer, 122
- Paget, Sir James, on constitutional nature of cancer, 140
- Paget’s disease, 174
- Pancreas, relation of, to cancer, 98
- Parasitism excluded, 19
- Paris, cancer in, 63
- Parker, Willard, on constitutional cause of cancer, 137
- Patience required for medical treatment of cancer, 134, 152
- Perseverance required for medical treatment of cancer, 134
- Personal cases of cancer, 180–197
- Perverted metabolism and cancer, 74, 150
- Philadelphia, cancer in, 65
- Philippines, rarity of cancer in, 57
- Phosphates in the urine, diminished in cancer, 94
- Pittsburgh, cancer in, 65
- Pituitary secretion in cancer, 97, 99
- Plants, cancer in, 43
- Plasma of blood in cancer, 77
- Pluriglandular extracts in cancer, 164
- Polarity of cells in cancer, 34, 73
- Polynesians, exempt from cancer, 50
- Potassium acetate in cancer, 159
- phosphate in cancer, 160
- Precancerous conditions, 89
- Prevention of cancer, 148
- Prize fund for cure of cancer, 173
- Problem of cancer, 201
- Prophylaxis of cancer, 148
- Prosperity and cancer, 48, 68, 109
- Protein foods, harm from, 113
- Psoriasis, lessons from, in cancer, 128
- Putrefaction, intestinal, and cancer, 155
- Radium, value in cancer, 29, 145, 168
- Recurrent cancer, 146, 187–195
- Red corpuscles in cancer, 76, 77
- Refinement of food, relation of, to cancer, 109
- Reid, increase of amino-acid nitrogen in cancer, 91
- Relation of diet to cancer, 198
- Renner, rarity of cancer among creoles, 51
- Requisites for development of cancer, 25
- Rheumatism, relation to cancer, 72
- Ribert, beginnings of cancer, 30
- Roberts, disturbance of salivary digestion from tea, 119
- Robin, relation between chlorine and nitrogen in cancer, 92
- Rohdenburg, Bullock, and Johnson, thymus gland in cancer, 101
- Rome, cancer in, 63
- Ross, thymus and calcium, harm from in cancer, 101
- relation of potash salts to cancer, 160
- Rous, cancer in rats checked by diet, 39
- Russian oil as a dressing in cancer, 166
- Saleeby, trypsin and amylopsin in cancer, 99
- St. Louis, cancer in, 65
- Sajous, adrenals in relation to cancer, 98
- Salivary secretion, acid in cancer, 94, 95, 161
- Salt, effect of, on cancer, 129
- Sarcoma of same origin as carcinoma, 175
- Scandinavia, cancer in, 125
- Schmidt, infectious diseases and cancer, 29
- Serum therapy, 164
- Sherman, composition of the human body, 107, 154
- Sherrington and Copeman, reproductive glands inhibiting growth of cancer, 103
- Shirlaw, pluriglandular extracts in cancer, 163
- Silica, retention of, in pancreas, in cancer, 98
- Simple diet, effect of, in cancer, 121
- Soëgaard, stomach cancer frequent in Norway, 125
- Solids in the urine, deficient in cancer, 87, 88
- Spontaneous disappearance of cancer, 36
- Stasis, intestinal, and cancer, 155
- Stuart-Low, relation of thyroid to cancer, 100
- Sub-oxidation and cancer, 132
- Sulphates, increased in cancer, 92
- Sulpho-cyanic acid, increased in cancer, 92
- Sulphur elements, altered in cancer, 92
- Supra-renal glands, relation of, to cancer, 97
- Surgery, operative, in cancer, 145, 147, 168, 179
- Surgical aspects of cancer, 7, 9, 10, 25
- Sweet, Corson, White, and Saxon, effect of diet on experimental tumors, 38
- Switzerland, cancer in, 62
- Syphilis and cancer, 22
- Taste gratified, a cause of cancer, 108
- Tea, relation to cancer, 117
- Telluric influences in cancer, 22
- Testicles, internal secretion of, relation to cancer, 102
- Thompson on consumption of coffee and tea, 118, 154
- Thymus gland in cancer, 101
- Thyroid, danger from in cancer, 164
- Tobacco, influence of, in cancer, 126
- Toxicity of urine, increased in cancer, 91
- Toxic secretion from cancerous mass, 70, 78, 104, 206
- Toxins, intestinal, and cancer, 92, 155
- Transmission of cancer, 20
- Traumatism and cancer, 24
- Trypsin in cancer, 99
- Tuberculosis and cancer, 16, 44, 45
- Tuke, influence of the mind on morbid processes, 86
- Türk, cytology of cancer, 74
- United States, cancer in, 16, 64, 68
- Urea excretion, deficient in cancer subjects, 89
- Uricacidæmia, relation to cancer, 72
- Urinary disturbance, functional, and cancer, 158
- Urinary solids, deficient in cancer, 87, 88
- Urobilin, increased in cancer, 90
- Vaccine-therapy in cancer, 164
- Valais, cancer in, 62
- Vegetable protein, 133
- Vegetable tumors, 43
- Vegetarian diet affords sufficient protein, 133, 153
- Vegetarian diet and cancer, 50–53, 55–57, 63, 115, 123, 128, 136, 142, 180–197
- Venus on vegetarian diet in cancer, 142
- Vincent, quoting Ehrlich on resistance to athreptic influence, 163
- Virchow, on tumor formation, 31
- Voit’s dietary standard, 111
- Volumetric analysis of urine in cancer, 87, 94, 159
- Wakefield on hyperacidity of the blood plasma in cancer, 33
- Wales, cancer in, 57
- Walshe on the cause of cancer, 137
- Watson, effect of meat diet on tissue cells, 114
- Wealth, relation to cancer, 48, 68, 109
- Weight in cancer, 161, 192, 195
- Wells, nuclear proteins in cancer cells, 83
- Well-to-do men and cancer, 130
- West Indies, cancer in, 57
- Williams, cancer problems,
- 36, 45, 47, 50, 58, 72
- Wolf, cancer in Australia, 47, 48
- Wolter, nucleo-proteids in cancer tissue, 82
- Wrong eating and cancer, 152
- Xanthin bases, increased in cancer, 90, 91
- X-ray, value in cancer, 29, 145, 167