PART
II
THE
PANCREATIC OR ENZYME TREATMENT
OF
CANCER
RETROSPECT
ABOUT three years ago a medical
correspondent in New York suggested to the writer that in a year or two he
would perhaps review the history of the enzyme or pancreatic treatment of
cancer during the years from 1906, pointing out the mistakes he and others had
made, and withdrawing those things in his scientific conclusions which had not
stood the test of time and experiment. The reply then made was: “ When that
time comes, I Shall have nothing to retract.” This is true to-day, and nothing
in the first “ Scientific Report “* issued by the New York Skin and Cancer
hospital alters its truth in the least. When, in 1903, the writer laid aside
other scientific work on the germ-cells, heredity and variation, he was well
aware that the impending campaign would be a deadly one, and that if victory
did—as scientifically it must—result, the field of conflict would be as thickly
strewn with the victims of cancer as any of the bloodiest battle-grounds of
human history. Six years ago, when,
* Bainbridge. William
Seaman. AM., Sc.D.. M.D. The Enzyme Treatment for Cancer “ (Scientific Report
on Investigations with Reference to the Treatment of Cancer, No. 1, 1909, New
York, pp. 1-34).
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