THE WATER OF LIFE - Thought for Food

upon removing to another place of dwelling. Of such cases the well‐
known surgeon, Mr. Hastings Gilford, wrote (in 1925) the significant
words: "Though cancer is commonly regarded as inevitably fatal, many
cases are recorded of its ` spontaneous ' disappearance‐and nothing
can be more certain than that these recorded cases are very few in
comparison with those which are left unrecorded. " (!) A damaging
admission, by the way, which suggests, as Mr. Ellis Barker and others
have already suggested, that the Medical Profession and the Cancer
Ring may be anxious to keep the real truth about malignancy from the
lay public.
One more theory may be here cited, viz., that the excessive use of
common salt (which is not a food) is conducive to cancer. According to "
The Biochemic System of Medicine" there are at least twelve important
mineral salts which are present in healthy blood and tissues. Why,
therefore, take one of these salts and administer it in the crude form
that Nature never intended, and in quantities in which it does not exist
in natural foods? Moreover, if cancer is a fungoid growth, as it has been
maintained, then surely a warning may be derived from the fact that
gardeners water mushroom beds with warm salt and water solutions
with the object of producing a profuse crop. Another suggestive point is
that, in spite of eating large quantities of salt in its crude form, the
tissues of people who live on an illbalanced or de‐natured diet, can
nevertheless register deficiency of sodium chloride (common salt).
Sodium chloride is necessary‐and hence, of course harmless to the
tissues in such minute quantities as are to be found in vegetables,
salads, etc., but is harmful when taken into the body as a condiment.
The same is relatively true of iron; phosphate of iron being one of the
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