174 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
evidences,
and they were not at all numerous. The opinion then formed was, that, in the
course of two or three days more, even these evidences of epithelioma would
have vanished. Very shortly afterwards the same hospital physician had a
similar result in an American patient suffering from cancer of the tongue.
This
liquefaction of cancer, which, it may be added, can only be carried out safely
in the presence of large quantities of amylopsin, is, of course, a stereo-chemical
reaction. Now, Dr. Bainbridge admits (p. 32) that it occurs “ in some cases.”
As it is a chemical action, which must happen invariably under proper
scientific conditions, the onus was upon Dr. Bainbridge to prove why it
occurred “in some cases” and not in others; why there was an apparent exception
to this chemical reaction. The reason, of course, was, that in many of the very
advanced cases experimented upon the strengths and doses of the injections
were inadequate to perform this chemical reaction. But this obvious explanation
seems never to have occurred to the author.
Regarded
from the point of view of science, this liquefaction of a living malignant
tumour by means of adequate injections of trypsin and amylopsin is seen to be
of momentous importance. It stamps the treatment, when scientifically given, as
one continuous and sustained stereo-chemical reaction. Obviously, the
liquefaction of the tumour and of any metastases is the aim of the treatment.
To the writer it does not seem that great difficulties will usually be
encountered with glandular metastases, for again and again he has known these
to disappear, even when the main tumour continued its career of growth and
destruction. But in two ways at least the matter has great practical import. Since
the liquefaction is the goal to be aimed at, and since all toxic