PREFACE xv
treatment of cancer in his own gestation—for the suppression
of normal trophoblast or asexual generation. For otherwise this, as the most
deadly form of cancer known — chorio-epithelioma — would inevitably destroy
him—and his parent. In normal development, trypsin and amylopsin, unheeding
human medical and surgical perversity, intolerance, and ignorance, will
continue to destroy cancer, or trophoblast, or asexual generation, as in the
past has happened for untold millions of years, for long ages before man was
evolved.
For
this is one. of Nature’s fundamental postulates, one of her inexorable laws for
the continued existence of a race of human beings to people the earth, and
without its strict and unbending observance there would be no living human
beings upon the earth, no surgeons, no “cancer experts,” loudly parading and
proclaiming publicly their ignorance of the origin and nature of cancer, and—no
problems of cancer.
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It is a pleasant duty to put on record
here how much in recent years the writer owes to the help of Messrs. Fairchild
Brothers and Foster, of New York City, to Mr. B. T. Fairchild, and to their European
manager, Mr. A. E. Holden. On all occasions the latter never failed to find
some way of meeting my demands upon him. Like his chief, Mr. B. I. Fairchild,
he has helped the humane and scientific work in every way in his power. What
the debt is which the world owes to Mr. B. T. Fairchild himself, to his deep
interest in the enzyme treatment of cancer, and to his scientific powers and
knowledge, I will not attempt to determine. A later generation may be better
able to estimate it. I know that from his heart not so long ago he sent the
message that, except myself,