INTRODUCTION 15
trypsin
I have also noticed a disagreeable complication, which consists in this, that
often the digestive power of the trypsin passed over also to sound tissue, and
a disagreeable destruction of this came to pass. Recently Sticker and Falk
have improved the trypsin-therapy in that they have united the action of
trypsin to charcoal, by which means, after a single injection, this action
persists much longer, since this carbenzyme is not so quickly used up as
ordinary trypsin.”
Regarding
the foregoing, only a few words need be added. It will be noted that Blumenthal
also confirms the “ liquefying” action of trypsin on cancer. This has now
happened in London, Berlin, New York, and elsewhere. The researchers of the
Imperial Cancer Research Fund denied some years ago that trypsin had any action
at all upon cancer-cells. Looked at scientifically, either trypsin acts upon
living cancer-cells, and
scientific paper. Moreover, as Professor Blumenthal is
quite aware, the results of his own experiments with “trypsin “ are in direct
contradiction with the verdict pronounced, without the production of any
evidences, by officials of this cancer research. It reminds one of the
reception accorded to von Siebold’s discovery of two sorts of spermatozoa in a
fresh-water dioecious snail, Paludina vivipara, in 1836. Within an easy
walk of Würzburg, this snail is readily found in great numbers, and the first
time that these two sorts of sperms were seen by me was in 1882, in living
material obtained not far from Würzburg. None the less, when von Sicbold
published his find, the Professor of Anatomy in the University of Würzburg, the
celebrated anatomist and embryologist, Albert von Kölliker, interposed the
weight of his authority, and, without taking the trouble to examine the facts
for himself in the animal concerned, disposed of von Siebold’s finds . . .
simply by denying the correctness of his observations. Since that time an
extensive literature has sprung up concerning twofold sperms in Paludina
and many other animals, including man, and the well-known cytologist, F. Meves,
has published a minute account of the development and histology of these two
sperms of this snail, the wormlike and the hairlike forms.