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Mr. Frank Geary's book with Institute, Dover, that cancer is imagine the thunder of falling the above title, so far as its his anaerobic Lc, living without trees, the sharp crackle of flame tory of the land question is con- free oxygen-is important. It is cerned, is one that all students of confirmed by the experiments this problem should have on their with tar and heavy minorul olla, bookshelves. (Allen and Unwin, which produce cancer when ap 10s. 6d. net.) There will be piled to the skin of men differences of opinion, however, animals. Tar and heavy oils are as to the political and economic non-oxidisable, the healthy life of remedies he suggests. "By the cells being destroyed. forming gwirling masses of aerial flame, careful examination of the history suitable medium for the cancer rolling great drifts of smoke of the conditions upon which, spore to grow in. since 1066, land has been held, he work of the late Dr. Forbes Ross ground fine showers of sifting The great before and raining to the fa able to show that the present inds an explanation in this dis-nehes miles away; imagine all system is one of the causes of the

it explains the this, the seething furnace of fire, covery; also depressed condition of the agri-success secured in the treatment the thunder of a forest burning cultural labourer, which, in its of cancer with the administration and the roar of the rushing wind turn, is one of the causes for his of attentuated solutions of citrate and yet I have given but a brief, migration to the towne, with a and radio-phosphate of potash, imperfect outline of a timberland consequent glut in the urban for this element is the great blaze, writes J. J. Napier in the labour market," comments the oxidising agent in the blood, it "Canadian National Railways. "Manchester Guardian." "Stated thus, he makes good his case, and mineral ash of the red corpuscles. forest fire is seen in all the glory forms over 70 per cent, of the Magazine." It is at night that a he has adduced material of great

and was wall described by Dr. of its destructive splendour. The interest in his support."

Liebig as the essential alkali day, terrible though it may seem, Owing to certain defects in thes but a drab affair. Dense clouds diet and preparation of food, the of smoke choke the air, a smoke Dr. Edwin Scoll, the self-styled modern civilised human being developing, inventor of what he terms the suffered from potassium starva-through which the sun peers but blinding, stifling, "death stroke" in the form of tion, and the increase of cancer vaguely as a blood-red ball. But "canned" lightning, which he a corollary of this state of when night draws its curtains elaims, will revolutionise existing things. The recent report of the across the skies then the fire takes war tactics, states that he will Middlesex, Hospital calls attention on a new and majestic mien. The formally ask the American Navy to the fact that cases of cancer whole heavens seem as if ablaze, Department's assistance in test-have been known to recover sparkling branda ge rocketing ing the invention off the Cali-spontaneously, This curative overhead like low-rushing comets, fornian coast in September. He power in the blood depends entire so bright are they. On the edge plans to make a tent with the aidly on the due supply of the radio- of the skyline a Lowering pine of an old battleship or a pilotless activis alkali potash. Without the suddenly bursts into fire as aeroplane, or both. Dr. Scott help of bio-chemical seionet the flame arch leaps to engulf it; it is ♦♦ said that he wished to convince medical man is handicapped in his as if Nature has kindled a gigan- the officials of the truth of his fight with disease. The humantic beacon to warn mankind of a contentions and the efficacy of body is composed of certain new and destructive force that the invention as a death dealing chemical elements, and if from had come upon him. Strange and agency. He says that it is capa-any cause the due proportion of eerie noises fill the air, fire noises bie of the destruction of all these elements is defective, then heard all the long, stiffing day but life on land, ses, or air within a the health of the body suffers, and which seem to take on a new and radius of 20 miles, the disabling the system is left open to the weird cloak in the darkness, Man of all radios within a similar attack of disease. An excess radius. the destruction of the calcium (lime) in the body causes

feels very small, indeed, in the superstructures of buttleships rapid growth in cancer of both the very rush of the flames seems presence of these blazing leagues; within 10 miles, the bringing varieties, the accumulation of to mock hia puny efforts to control down of aeroplanes from any enlcium is a feature of middle them. height, and the destruction and age; also. cancer is a disease of the disabling of land fortifications people over 19 It is impossible

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