8 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
announced,
Captain Lambelle entered my little room in full uniform, and, saluting,
introduced himself, we have been close friends, He worked for himself over much
of my material—a collection also, like the Scots Greys, “Second to None !“—and
he read all my published papers, which, unlike some scientific people, he thoroughly
understood and appreciated; in fact, he evinced the deepest interest in all the
problems and their solutions which had occupied my leisure hours during many
years. At that time I happened to be, nolens volens, in the thick of the
cancer-business, and he often expressed his regrets that the nature of his
work, with young healthy soldiers, gave him no chances of looking into
cancer-matters practically for himself. Subsequently, his appointment as
operating surgeon of the Military Hospital, York—the hospital of the Northern
Command—placed, one after the other, four cases of cancer in his way, and of
these he cured three, the fourth dying from haemorrhage as the treated dead
sloughing tumour came away. One of these cases is fully recorded in this book.
The other two successful cases are not laid stress upon by him, simply because,
although the clinical diagnoses of cancer were ample, the microscopical evidences,
upon which scientifically I personally lay no stress at all, were lacking.* In
order to satisfy the surgeons who have set up this arbitrary standard of the
microscopical appearances of cancer as a criterion—often a very deceptive
one—the requisite slides of sections of the tumour have to be produced as
completing the surgical diagnosis.
In
his last letter to me before sailing for India, Captain Lambelle stated that
the total number of injections given in his latest case was 120. Apparently,
from the charts, the ferments exhibited from March to July, 1909, did not
* Compare
Professor Richardson’s opinion as cited on p. 4.