Excerpt from The Therapeutic Gazette, 1916, Vol. 40: Incorporating Medicine and the Medical Age; A Monthly Journal of Practical Therapeutics; Third Series, Vol. XX The guiding of the diet for these cases is often not a simple matter. Protein the sys tem must have, to build up and regenerate the cell life of the body. But the ox and the sheep get their protein, and even the iron, which man seeks in their flesh, from the ground, and the vegetable kingdom con tains abundant proteid and mineral sub stances, even for man, if they are rightly sought for. And it is recognized that herbivorous animals, as also primitive races who subsist on the products of the ground, are relatively or quite free from cancer, whereas carnivorous animals, as also domesticated dogs and cats, are especially prone to the disease; and it has been repeat edly shown experimentally that a purely vegetarian diet inhibits or greatly diminishes the receptivity of inoculation with cancer material in mice. But it is rarely satisfactory to simply order the cancer subject to subsist on a vegetarian diet without some special dirce tions in regard to the same; this is especially true in regard to the poorer and more ignorant classes, and when it is attempted it is surprising to see how much they depend on animal food in some form or other. To aid in understanding and carrying out treatment perfectly in the out-patient clinic for the medical treatment of cancer, at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, a four-page card has been prepared which is given to each patient, with instructions to study it and carry out every detail perfectly. On the outer sides are instructions in regard to cancer, and the danger of neglect, together with directions in regard to the preparation and consumption of food, mode of life, etc. And on the inside pages a menu, or diet list, for each meal, for six days, which is here presented. This is to be repeated over and over again, and by this means the same diet does not fall on the same day of each week. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.