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THE

 

ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER

AND ITS SCIENTIFIC BASIS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

SOME years ago a former fellow-student—M.D. (Lond.), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, physician to a large hospital in London—remarked that a single case of cure of undoubted cancer would establish the truth of the writer’s published statements, and bring the whole world to his feet. Not long after then, here and there cures were published; but to these I will not refer; for, unlike those of the York case, the scientific proofs of them are not in my possession, and in one way or another it may be said of many of them, that the evidences in their favour were incomplete or inconclusive, which latter was, indeed, the verdict pronounced, without adducing scientific evidences, upon “trypsin” by Sir Henry Morris, Bart., late President of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, as recently as 1908. To a profession such as the medical one, which does not yet grasp the nature of the scientific evidences, the results of the pancreatic or enzyme treatment, even in the most favourable cases, might easily have been taken to be “inconclusive.” The scientific facts that certain tumours had yielded to the stereo-chemical test—the highest court of appeal—and thereby had shown their malignant

 

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