216 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
to
a minimum consistent with keeping up the bodily strength. Diet recommended:
milk, fresh vegetables, bread, butter, cheese, with eggs, chicken, and the
lighter sorts of fish in moderate amount. The idea being to keep an excess of
alkalies in the blood—the internal administration of calcium lactate aids the
above diet in this respect.
2. Oral Administration.—I give no ferment
preparation by the mouth at all. Calcium lactate is the only drug necessary.
3. General Management.—As usual in
hospital.
4. Local Treatment .—None, unless there
be an inflamed or ulcerating skin area or opening. Hot boric fomentations,
changed four hourly. Irrigation with potassium permanganate lotion or weak
iodine lotion, where there is foul discharge. Strong antiseptics—e.g., mercuric
salts and carbolic acid, etc.—are to be avoided, as interfering with the
action of the ferments. On no account may the case be subjected to treatment
with radium or Röntgen rays.
5. Hypodermic Treatment.—This is the
essential part. Injections used are trypsin of 1,000 units of tryptic activity
per cubic centimetre, and amylopsin of 2,000 units of amylolytic activity per
cubic centimetre. The injections should be given daily, if possible. The injection
must not be made into the cancer itself. The injections are given
intramuscularly, deeply into the muscles of the buttock, or about the iliac
crest or in the flank. Abscess frequently follows injections into the
subcutaneous tissues. In some hundreds of injections I have never once had an
abscess. I always give equal quantities of the above two preparations. I never
give the trypsin without adding more amylopsin. The full dose has been 1
ampoule of trypsin, or 1 c.c. + 1 ampoule of amylopsin, or 1 c.c. In units of
activity, 1,000 units of tryptic activity + 2,000 units of amylolytic power.
After an injection I always massage the part for one minute, so that the
injection does not lie