164 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
be
successful. Nature does not “ operate” upon living asexual generation, and
perhaps for this reason she has not evolved an infallible mode of treating
scientifically the failures of surgical operation. Dr. Rice’s case* of
laryngeal cancer may be cited as an instance of the successful treatment of an
unoperated tumour, as also the Naples case of inoperable cancer of the
tongue.** Within the past few days (1907) another case of the like kind
has been reported privately as cured. Here, in October, 1906, on operation a
leading London surgeon found an inoperable cancer of the caecum.*** He made no
attempt to remove it. In December the enzyme treatment was commenced, and
continued until April, when on examination this surgeon pronounced it “almost a
cure.” Now, in August, the cancer has quite disappeared. This unreported case
is paralleled by one in the British Medical Journal of August 31, 1907,
p. 541. The like history is true of many other cases. But with postoperative
recurrent cases, while there may be success, as in Dr. Wiggin’s case,**** since
certified as cured, the cancer is more likely to “run its parabola” than to
yield to a scientific treatment.
When
official researchers are heard proclaiming to mankind that the enzymes, trypsin
and amylopsin, have no action upon living cancer-cells, this is not merely a
denial of the truth and validity of all my embryological work of the past
nineteen years. (That is nothing new.
* Rice, Clarence C
.: “Treatment of Cancer of the Larynx by Subcutaneous injection of Pancreatic
Extract (Trypsin),” Medical Record, November 24, 1906, pp. 812-816, New
York.
** Beard J. “ The Scientific Criterion of a Malignant Tumour.” Medical
Record, January 5, 1907. New York. See also Appendix D.
*** See Appendix G, No. 3.
**** Wiggin, F. H.:” Case of Multiple Fibro-Sarcoma of the
Tongue,” Journ. Amer. Med. Assoc., December 15, 1906, pp. 2003-2008.