WAR ON CANCER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10306, 15 January 1927, Page 7

WAR ON CANCER

THEORY OF FLESH FOOD EATERS ' NOT BORNE OUT BY fACT,3. INVESTIGATIONS INTO RELIGIOUS ORDERS. (United Press • Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Jan. 14, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 13. An analysis of life among monastic communities conclusively proves that fatal cancer occurs in populations abstaining from flesh food and does not support Lr. Roilo Russell’s contention that cancer is relatively low in such communities. So say Dr. Copeland and Major Greenwood, members of the Department of Cancer, after investigation of various religious orders in England, France and Belgium.

, These investigations reveal that the English Garthuaian house contains fifty-two monks, who live under rigid rules in a cell of four small rooms, from which they emerge nightly to attend service lasting from 10.30 to two o’clock in the morning, and also for a midday meal and on Sundays for a weekly walk. They do not eat meat or poultry, even in illness, and do not smoke. The Cistercians are wholly forbidden meat, while fish and eggs are allowed only as an indulgence to the weak.—tV and N.Z.C.A.

X-RAY DISCOVERIES. IMPROVED DESIGNS PROBABLE SYDNEY, Jan. 14. Dr. Warnford Moppett Young, <. - Sydney, a biologist attached to thcaricer research department of th*. Sydney University, who is at present en route to the Medical Congress at Dunedin, where he will read a paper, has made what is probably one of the most helpful discoveries yet announced in connection with the treatment of cancer. His investigations have revealed that X-ray waves of slightly different lengths have widely divergent effects upon living tissues. It is not unlikely that when the fact is recognised a considerable improvement in the design of X-ray machines for therapeutic purposes will ensue.— U.P.A.