138 THE
ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
Of
the ferments of the sexual generations, by far the most important is that first
discovered by the Court physician, Baron Corvisart, and to which afterwards
Professor W. Kuhne gave the name of “ trypsin.” It is this enormously powerful
ferment, trypsin, upon which Nature relies for the suppression of trophoblast
in normal mammalian gestation. Lower down in the scale than the mammals she
associates with it its complement, amylopsin. Foetal blood of a mammal does not
contain this latter, and the foetal pancreas gland does not produce it. In the
human pancreas gland amylopsin is not formed until some few months after birth.
The reason of this is not far to seek. When in the ancestral mammals uterine
development was initiated, along with it and following its close there was
evolved the mammary nutrition. In this amylopsin is not needed, and its
production by the pancreas gland was postponed until the milk nutrition was
done with. The mammary nutrition is (on the testimony of more than one
embryologist: thus, on that of my friend J. P. Hill, as well as on my own)
older in time than the allantoic placenta. The latter was introduced to defer
the birth period, and by prolonging the gestation, as detailed in my “ Span of
Gestation,” to bring the young into the world in a more perfect state. In
prolonging the gestation, the mammary nutrition was postponed, and in this way
the appearance of amylopsin upon the scene put off to an even later period.
This has led to grave difficulties and dangers in human gestation, for there is
no such thing in nature as a ferment possessing both proteolytic and
amylolytic powers.*
The proper
scientific treatment of cancer is the enzyme or pancreatic one. If trypsin
alone be used, bad symp-
* Although a ferment,
possessing such powers, has been advertised in medical newspapers.