THE
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toms
very soon arise, all of which recall the vomiting of pregnancy and eclampsia.
Trypsin alone is a very deadly remedy for cancer, the reason being that in
killing the cancer albumins this enzyme does not split them up to harmless
simple products. What the products of the action of trypsin alone are it is
impossible to say, for they may quite conceivably vary with the amount of the
injection, its strength, and with the size of the tumour. Anyway, some of them
are rank poisons to the organism, and they lead to nausea, vomiting, pain in
the back, drowsiness, high arterial tension, albuminuria, oedema, etc., and
even to convulsions, lasting several hours. The cause of such symptoms and of
the eclampsia of pregnancy did not long puzzle the embryologist, who perceived
that it was the absence of the complementary ferment, amylopsin, which induced
them. Nature had committed a grave error in omitting amylopsin from foeta1
blood, and in relying solely on trypsin. In normal gestation, if anything went
wrong with the maternal pancreas gland, and if the maternal supply of amylopsin
became diminished or ceased, then serious symptoms were bound to follow. To my
knowledge, at the moment of writing, injections of amylopsin have not yet been
given in any case of eclampsia, but they have, whenever used in cases of
cancer, removed all the bad symptoms named.
The
preparations employed in the enzyme treatment of cancer should be like those
first used in America— the Fairchild preparations; that is to say, they must be
potent extracts, scientifically prepared from the fresh gland direct. The
trypsin injection must be especially rich in trypsin. The injection of
amylopsin must have great amylolytic potency, and it is also to be used at all
times to meet and remove all bad symptoms, and in the later periods of
treatment, when all the cancer albumin