Note 104 — Chapter IV · FIRE AND FOOD Part II.

Dr. Bell, writing in 1916, estimates that the death-rate from cancer in this country has increased 200 per cent. since 1868. See The Futility of Operations, etc., p. 3. In Health at its Best versus Cancer, p. 254, he says: “What we are pleased to term civilisation has a good deal to answer for, and certainly cancer is an evil which is attributable to a very considerable extent to flagrant errors of diet for which civilisation is directly responsible.”