At first the idea of an absolutely vegetarian diet is distasteful and seemingly impossible to many patients, but when it is patiently explained, as to the reason for its employment and the real benefit to be derived from it, it is readily acquiesced in and commonly carried out very faithfully; indeed many a patient has asserted that they are more than pleased, and have no desire for animal food. Among the poorer classes especially it has been hard to make matters clear, and to facilitate the work of our Medical Clinic for Cancer I prepared a dietary card, or folder, with a daily menu, which has now been in very satisfactory use by hundreds of patients in private and public practice. To make the whole matter of this line of treatment perfectly clear, certain statements in regard to cancer have been presented on the first page, and on the last page some directions as to diet and mode of life of a practical character, as you will see on the samples now passed around, known as the “green card diet slip.” I may say that the hospital has already used up one thousand of these sheets given to patients and to physicians making inquiries, and there have just been printed this revised edition of five thousand copies, which will be gladly furnished to those who can make good use of them for cancer patients. New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, Second Ave. and 19th St. DIRECTIONS FOR CANCER PATIENTS 1. Cancer is a serious disease which should receive constant medical care from the time it is first suspected. 2. “Cancer Specialists,” who advertise, should be avoided. 3. Cancer is not contagious, and there is no danger of communicating the disease to others. 4. Cancer is not a disgraceful disease, and there is no reason for being ashamed of it or hiding it. 5. As soon as cancer is suspected, whether there be a lump, or sore, or other symptoms, it should be at once cared for by a competent medical man, as the earlier it is rightly treated the more prospect there is of its being cured. 6. Anything suspected to be cancer should not be handled or squeezed, but should be kept from all irritation, as all this increases and spreads the trouble and renders the cure more difficult. 7. If it is decided that a surgical operation is desirable and wise, this should be done very completely at the earliest possible moment; delay is dangerous. 8. The proper medical treatment of cancer should never be neglected, both at the very beginning, and also long after an operation has been performed, to prevent recurrence. 9. It is not necessary to operate on every cancer; x-ray and radium are often of value, and the disease can also disappear and remain absent under careful and efficient dietetic and medical treatment alone. 10. This treatment consists in an absolutely vegetarian diet, with continuous proper medication, for a long time.