MODERN WOMEN

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1924, Page 5

MODERN WOMEN

PUNY AND INSIGNIFICANT. NOTED DOCTOR’S INDICTMENT. THE CAUSE OF CANCER. Is cancer caused by the artificial foods and methods of dress adopted by the women of to-day? Sir William. Arbuthnot-Lane, senior surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, in the following cable message received this morning presents a scathing indictment of the women of today. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT. (Received Dec. 29, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28. “The primary factor in the development of cancer is the degeneration of civilised woman,” writes Sir William Arbutlmot-Lane, in the Franeo-British Medical Review. He says: “The poor, badly nourished thing has lost much of the normal physical characteristics which were such a marked feature of the magnificently built savage. Her capacity, to bear and produce children lias become complicated by much •trouble, and the innumerable sequelae which often make life miserable. Her sexual character is very defective. She is degenerating in size and the vast majority are puny and insignificant. Their brains are over-stimulated by socalled education, by unsuitable food and drugs. ■ She is unable to provide sufficient nourishment' for her offspring and is obliged to depend on deleterious. combinations supplied as food by ■ tlie chemists. Their unfortunate children are denrived of suitable food and become constipated. Their tissues are devitalised by poisons absorbed from the intestines. Their teeth are consequently defective, their noses and throats are invaded by organisms producing adenoids, large tonsils and pyorrhoea, owing to the inabiliy of the poisoned tissues to resist the invasion of disease germs. Woman is the chief victim of civilisation, for which she is indebted to man’s crass stupidity. The civilised woman, has been subservient to man for centuries, and has not been allowed to participate in the making of laws controlling the community and the health of the people.” ■ .' The Dispatch interviewed Arbuthnot Lane, who said: “The ignorance of men and women in all questions relating to .foods is „ the primary factor in tihe development of cancer, and he would like to see a society formed to prevent cancer by teaching people what foods they can safely eat, and that to avoid. The peasantry in North India, where cancer is practically unknown, never touch meat. They live mainly ; on bread, made of wholes meal flour. Waite bread is not a food—-it is a sham and a source of physical degeneration, ill-health and disease. Women’s craze, for a silhouette figure is a grave danger to themselves • and the future race. Women, in trying to look . like boys, destroy the character of their sex. Rubber corsets and similar contrivances for reducing the size of the hips and chest will prove most deleterious to the future race, as they interfere with nutrition, and are liable to. cause degeneration of the most important organs. Women are thereby exposing themselves to the danger of tumours and cancers. The* trouble is that a woman is much more apt to like to be imitative than man. They do these things because other women do. Can you' .imagine men Wearing red waistcoats or similar fads just because someone, else hals done so?”