BLAME YOURSELF FOR ILLNESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2983, 7 January 1926, Page 4

BLAME YOURSELF FOR ILLNESS.

MEDICAL MEN TELL CARELESS

WORLD

Philadelphia, Oct. 28

Modern man is decidedly notmore sinned against than sinning in the eyes of medical science.

He is, through his own fault, more operated against than operating correctly his own human mechanism. This is the opinion of the great operating profession, voiced at the annual convention of the American College of Surgeons by such distinguished scientists as Sir W,'m. Arbuthnot Lane, of London, and Dr. Chas. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn. With his increasing civilisation, the modern man is changing the structure and the function of his body, increasing at an alarming rate his liability to mortal diseases, in spite of all medical and surgical science is doing to cut down the mortality. Cancer, perhaps greatest mortality producer in modern civilisation, and many of the morbid diseases to-day filling with increasing numbers society’s hospitals and asylums, are directly traceable to habits of modem life. Bad eating and improper attention to the natural functions of the body are placed at the top of the list as causes of deteriorating changes in the body, originally intended for primitive life. Therefore civilised man is heir to a chain of gastronomic and intestinal ills such as his savage brother does not know. Auto-intoxication, a great evil of civilisation, is vitiatng our peoples, filling ocr communities “with miserable specimens of humanity.” “It is not an exaggeration to say that we suffer and die through the ills which arise in our alimentary system,” stated the great English surgeon.

The prevention of cancer can only be brought about by a complete revolution of our diet and habits, he continued, stressing the “invariable” connection between the dread disease, so hopeless for all the surgeon’s skill, and the bad effects of chronic auto-intoxication.