THE
ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
AND ITS SCIENTIFIC BASIS
INTRODUCTION
SOME years ago a former fellow-student—M.D.
(Lond.), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, physician to a
large hospital in London—remarked that a single case of cure of undoubted
cancer would establish the truth of the writer’s published statements, and
bring the whole world to his feet. Not long after then, here and there cures
were published; but to these I will not refer; for, unlike those of the York
case, the scientific proofs of them are not in my possession, and in one way or
another it may be said of many of them, that the evidences in their favour were
incomplete or inconclusive, which latter was, indeed, the verdict pronounced,
without adducing scientific evidences, upon “trypsin” by Sir Henry Morris,
Bart., late President of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, as recently as
1908. To a profession such as the medical one, which does not yet grasp the
nature of the scientific evidences, the results of the pancreatic or enzyme
treatment, even in the most favourable cases, might easily have been taken to
be “inconclusive.” The scientific facts that certain tumours had yielded to the
stereo-chemical test—the highest court of appeal—and thereby had shown their
malignant
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