Cancer: Its Cause and Treatment, Volume 1 (of 2)

by Lucius Duncan Bulkley

29. The prevention of cancer, therefore, or the checking of its increasing occurrence, depends largely upon the early enough adoption of such measures as will limit the agencies which induce a derangement of the body juices which tend to bad nutrition and derangement of the body cells.

30. The simple life, with the avoidance of the dietetic and other causes which have been found to induce cancer in nations and individuals, promises the best hope for the arrest of the rapidly increasing development of cancer throughout the world.

31. It is more than possible, however, that the long continued operation of many baneful causes has produced such a degeneration of tissue in the human race, that it will take a generation or more of proper living to make the beneficial impression on the general incidence of cancer which is so longed for.

BIBLIOGRAPHY[^[2]]

1. Abderhalden—Defensive Ferments. New York, 1914. 2. Abernethy—Surgical Observations on Tumors. Lond., 1816, 221. 3. Bainbridge—Medical Record, 1909, LXXVI, 85. 4. Bainbridge—The Cancer Problem. New York, 1914. 5. Banks—Lancet, 1900, I, 684. 6. Beard—The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer. Lond., 1911. 7. Beebe—New York Medical Journal, 1910, LXXXII, 1058. 8. Bell—Cancer: Its Causation and Its Curability Without Operation. London, 1903. 9. Beneke—Berl. Klin. Wochenschr., March 15, 1880.

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]
  • personal statistics of, [176]
  • problem, [201]
• 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]
  • of cancer tissue, [78], [82]
  • of the body, [107]
• 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]
  • study of cancer, [17], [18]
• Coffee, consumption in United States, [118]
  • nitrogen in, [119]
  • relation to cancer, [117]
• 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]
  • uric acid and cancer, [125], [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]
  • stasis and cancer, [155]
  • toxins and cancer, [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,
  • in England, [116]
  • in the United States, [69]
• 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]
  • strain, relation to cancer, [81], [85]
• Merriam, meat diet a cause of cancer, [141]
• Metabolism, disordered, the cause of cancer, [74]
  • of cancer, [70]
  • perverted, and cancer, [150]
• 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]
  • increase in colloid, in cancer, [90]
  • partition in cancer, [90]
  • small amount needed in the economy, [114]
• 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]
  • metabolism, disturbed in cancer, [89]
  • requirement of the body, [112]
  • sufficient in vegetarian diet, [133]
• 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]
  • relation to cancer, [97]
  • value of in cancer, [99], [163]
• 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]
  • consumption of coffee in, [118]
  • consumption of meat in, [117]
• 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]

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[1]. According to the United States Mortality tables for 1912 there were 44,531 deaths from cancer that year, or 77 per 100,000 living, while the rate in 1911 was 74.3, an increase of 2.7. Tuberculosis has shown a steady decline, the death for 1912 being the lowest on record, 149.5 per 100,000, it having fallen from 200 per 100,000 in 1900, or over 25%.

[2]. No attempt has been made to collect an extensive bibliography, which might cover many pages, and a list is only given of those books and journal articles which I have been able to personally consult and to refer to in the text.