6 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
surgical
operation are not in blocks of certain dimensions; but assuming that surgery
ever does cure even a single case of cancer—a very big assumption which, as a
scientific man, I make only for the sake of argument—each case of cure would be
of the nature of a single successful experiment. I do not for a moment deny
that surgery does. and has done, many very wonderful things, but to assert that
it ever knowingly cures a single case of cancer is a scientific absurdity.
If
ten, a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand cases of cure he required—by the
surgeons, not by science— to establish the truth of the scientific foundations
of the pancreatic or enzyme treatment of cancer, then from the particulars
furnished in later chapters of this book, any of these numbers can be obtained,
always provided, as the lawyers say, that properly and scientifically
standardized and guaranteed preparations be employed and the treatment be
carried out in the scientific fashion —letter and spirit—laid down here by
Captain Lambelle and the writer. Since the medical profession of Great Britain
has, through some of its members, been most careful to guard that the writer,
who is a mere scientific man, and “not even a medical practitioner,” should
treat no cases at all—cancer being a natural phenomenon, not “ an incurable
disease “—more than this single demonstration cannot be asked from me. There
is, sad enough to say, no dearth of cases, for in England and Wales alone
annually nearly 40,000 people. some of them surgeons, die from malignant
disease.
man of high standing because of the
extent and nature of his investigations, doubted whether operation was ever
advisable in cases of cancer, and on the evening of my Liverpool lecture of 1905
I heard a prominent surgeon declare that he would not be willing, even in the
most favourable case of cancer in which he had operated, to stake a sovereign
against its recurrence.