THE WATER OF LIFE - Thought for Food

eing labelled as malignant when such may not be the fact, or it may
result in an operation being advised in case they should become
malignant. Thus, hundreds of trifling lumps have been treated surgically
as a major affliction, and cancer has eventually developed, because as
yet, neither doctors nor laymen realise that the surest way to invite
malignancy is the mutilation of the female breast or other parts of the
human body. (*)
(*) For instance, San Francisco is a surgically ridden city; it has few
physicians but hundreds of surgeons. Therefore we are not astonished
when we read that " the mortality from cancer in San Francisco exceeds
that of any other American city." (See Victory over Cancer by Cyril
Scott.)
I will now give the case‐history of Mrs. R. (1923). She was in the early
forties at the time. Condition‐anaemic under average height, below
normal weight, lump about the size of a hen's egg in one of her breasts.
Diagnosed as cancer by the late Dr. Rabagliati, and i mmediate
operation urged but firmly refused. Fasted on urine and drank 22 pints
of plain cold tap‐water daily. Her husband rubbed her from head to
foot with his own urine for two hours a day, and packs wrung out in
urine were placed over both breasts day and night. Cure in ten days.
Returned to Dr. Rabagliati on twelfth day after last visit to him, and he
could find ro trace of Anaemia had vanished also, abnormality in the
breast and the patient had been restored to perfect health.
Here is another case (1925). Middle‐aged woman. Growth of some
proportions situated near the armpit. Two surgeons advised operation,
but made a concession to her daughter's suggestion that the patient
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