LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE CAUSATION OF CANCER.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
think I can best serve the propaganda which your paper is spreading with so much success by sending you the account of a lady's education at a first rate establishment.
It illustrates in a most striking manner the hopeless ignorance of the educationist as to the functions of the body and their bearing on the health of the individual. I do not know whether to regard it as ludicrous or criminal. These are the people to whom we entrust the care of our children, for which they are amply paid. The much reviled Wackford Squeers was a paragon of wisdom as compared with them.
He had the intelligence to realize the importance of combating constipation, the chief obstacle to the perfect functioning of the brain. I have just returned from a visit to Jamaica,
where I studied the diet and habits of the native. One could not but be struck by the beautiful shape and carriage
of the neg,ro women, their appearance of health and happiness, and their vast superiority to the victims of our so called civilization. The regularity of their habits is, of course, due to the fact that they eat such a quantity of fruit and green food. I trust that the effort that is now being made to render such food more abundant and more popular will obtain the success it deserves.
In Mr. Barker's excellent work it is clearly demonstrated that all gastro-intestinal disorders and cancer are due to the faulty food and habits of civilization and that these troubles do not exist in natives living in their normal con- dition. I trust you will continue to assist this movement and carry it to a successful issue. It is by far the greatest problem of the present day.—I am, Sir, &c.,
[We regret that we are unable to print the long memo- randum which describes a lady's recollections of her treat- ment at school. It is really appalling reading. Constipation was habitual among the girls, and neither diet nor the time table was directed in any way whatsoever towards relief.— En. Spectator.]
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