Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1911 — TRY NUT DIET FOR CANCER [ARTICLE]

TRY NUT DIET FOR CANCER

London Physician Is Confident the Dreaded Disease Can Be Cured by Means of Food. London. —A nut diet is the latest Idea in the medical world as a possible cure for cancer. Dr. Alexander Haig, the noted authority on the influence of uric acid in disease, is the one who advances this theory. In a letter to the Lancet, a medical publication, he appeals to the profession to assist him in probing the possibilities of a real cure of cancer by dieting. It has been generally assumed hitherto that when a recovery from cancer takes place the disease has not been properly diagnosed. Doctor Haig now appeals to his professional brethren to send him thirty or forty cases of inoperative cancer for treatment. He has for years held the belief that diet is an important point in the treatment of cancer. The cases he requires must have a probability of at least six months of life, as change of diet produces little visible effect on the patient under three months. ■ Doctor Haig’s treatment consists in putting the patient on a “free-from-urlc-acid” diet and from that on a nut diet, with fruit Juices and distilled water as ’the only liquids allowed.