THE WATER OF LIFE - Thought for Food

CHAPTER VI.
GROWTHS AND CANCER (?)
In 1912 the late Dr. F. Forbes‐Ross, of London, a fully qualified physician,
wrote a book entitled Cancer ‐Its Genesis and Treatment. He had during
twentyfive years of practice come to the conclusion that malignancy
and other growths were due to a diet deficient in natural salts‐
especially in potash. By putting his patients on a more balanced diet
(such as I advocate), and administering potash‐salts in an assiminable
form, he cured a large number of cases of that dread disease; and yet
after his death, not one of his colleagues or one single hospital could be
induced to take up the treatmer, ‐so firmly had the dogma taken hold
of the Medical Profession that cancer must be treated exclusively by
the knife or radium. His book is now out of print. But another book by a
Surgeon, Mr. C. P. Childe, advocating speedy interference with the knife
the moment a lump looks at all suspicious, is still in print, or was so
until quite recently. (See Doctors, Disease and Health, also Victory over
Cancer, and Health, Diet and Commonsense, by Cyril Scott.)
I am not prepared to pronounce on the merits or demerits of Dr.
Forbes‐Ross's method, for I have ‐ lot required to try it. But the
treatment of his book shows how little the spirit of democracy prevails
in the Medical Profession, and should give intelligent members of the
public an inkling as to why cancer is still said to be an incurable disease
pow that the dictum is no longer true… if it ever was strictly true. It
would have been more veracious to say that many patients suffering
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