McGregor, absence of cancer in Fiji Islands, 50 Madden, absence of cancer in Africa, 50 Malaria and cancer, 21 Mastication, thorough, importance of in cancer, 95 Mayo, acidity and cancer, 124 Meat consumption, in England, 116 in the United States, 69 Meat, relation to cancer, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63, 116 Medical treatment of cancer, 135, 154 Melanesians, exempt from cancer, 50 Mental depression, influencing cancer, 86 strain, relation to cancer, 81, 85 Merriam, meat diet a cause of cancer, 141 Metabolism, disordered, the cause of cancer, 74 of cancer, 70 perverted, and cancer, 150 Mineral disturbances in the system in cancer, 122 Mitosis, cell, relation to cancer, 85 Mortality from cancer 90 per cent., 144 Murphy on surgery in cancer, 171 Myxœdema, 97 Nature of cancer, 15, 29 Negroes, rarity of cancer in, 52, 67 Nervous strain, relation to cancer, 85 New York City, deaths from cancer in, 65, 145 negro death rate from cancer, 67 New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, 8, 172 New Zealand, cancer in, 50 Nitrogen disintegration, imperfect in cancer, 91 increase in colloid, in cancer, 90 partition in cancer, 90 small amount needed in the economy, 114 Nitrogenous diet and cancer, 51, 53, 55, 57, 63, 81, 116 Non-cancerous tumors of breast, 178 Normal body cells and cancer, 31, 41, 70 Nowell, serum therapy, 165 Nuclei of cells, in cancer, 84 Nucleo-proteids in cancer, 82 Nutrition and cancer, 35, 36 Occupation and cancer, 28 Ovaries, internal secretion of, relation to cancer, 102 Over-eating and cancer, 152 Over-indulgence, effect of, 68 Oxyproteic acid, relation to cancer, 90 Packard, disturbance of mineral elements in blood, in cancer, 122 Paget, Sir James, on constitutional nature of cancer, 140 Paget’s disease, 174 Pancreas, relation of, to cancer, 98 Parasitism excluded, 19 Paris, cancer in, 63 Parker, Willard, on constitutional cause of cancer, 137 Patience required for medical treatment of cancer, 134, 152 Perseverance required for medical treatment of cancer, 134 Personal cases of cancer, 180‒197 Perverted metabolism and cancer, 74, 150 Philadelphia, cancer in, 65 Philippines, rarity of cancer in, 57 Phosphates in the urine, diminished in cancer, 94 Pittsburgh, cancer in, 65 Pituitary secretion in cancer, 97, 99 Plants, cancer in, 43 Plasma of blood in cancer, 77 Pluriglandular extracts in cancer, 164 Polarity of cells in cancer, 34, 73 Polynesians, exempt from cancer, 50 Potassium acetate in cancer, 159 phosphate in cancer, 160 Precancerous conditions, 89 Prevention of cancer, 148 Prize fund for cure of cancer, 173 Problem of cancer, 201 Prophylaxis of cancer, 148 Prosperity and cancer, 48, 68, 109 Protein foods, harm from, 113 metabolism, disturbed in cancer, 89 requirement of the body, 112 sufficient in vegetarian diet, 133 Psoriasis, lessons from, in cancer, 128