172 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
to-day
the sole impediment in the way of the successful transplantation of living
trophoblast is the Act of Parliament relating to vivisection.
When
Mr. Walter Ball and Mr. B. F. Thomas saw fit to publish an account of how they
tried “the trypsin treatment,” to their credit be it said, they did give
particulars. as will appear anon, such that a good insight could be obtained
into, and an estimate made of what they had really done. The like cannot be
said of Dr. Bainbridge’s report. It winds up with thirty theses or conclusions,
but the evidences establishing the truth of these are not to be found in the
text. This is as true of the favourable points as of the unfavourable ones. The
references to the liquefying action of trypsin on cancer-cells, and to the
beneficial effects of amylopsin. might seem to refute this, but no evidences of
these are adduced anywhere in this” scientific report,” and certainly the
writer would feel inclined to doubt them, had he not witnessed them elsewhere
again and again.
The
liquefaction of cancer, by adequate injections of trypsin, which was first seen
by me in actual liquid cancer, taken from living patients by a prominent
consulting physician in London, and which I first brought to Dr. Bainbridge’s
notice in microscopical preparations of such liquid cancer, is a matter of
supreme importance, worthy of much more lengthy reference than the two lines
accorded to it in Bainbridge’s report. The facts were first seen on February
26, 1907, and afterwards confirmed in the same case and in another. Since it is
quite four years ago that the discovery was made, in the interests
(cont from p 171) by
the Effects of Excision and Grafting of Ovaries,” in Coll. Rep. Univ. Edin.,
Physiol. Dept., 1907-08, No. 11 and “Results of Ovarian Transplantation,” in
Seventeenth Internat. Congress Physiol., Heidelberg, 1907.