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ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
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periphery of the growth in each case was marked out by a red line — an ‘area of
demarcation ‘ as plain as in a gangrenous limb. In Case 1—a failure just short
of success — we can see the process set forth, the influence of the trypsin
upon the peripheral portions of the growth being to stem the invasion of the
malignant cells, and to rouse the adjacent somatic tissues to that process of
repair pathology calls inflammation. In Case 2 the gangrene of the tumour
became complete, and the sloughing tumour was lifted from its bed without
leaving one bleeding-point, nor so much as an oozing granulation.”
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will be demonstrated presently that from a knowledge of ferment powers (in the
tryptic and amylolytic units set up by the late Sir William Roberts, M.D.
F.R.S., Professor of Medicine in the Owens College, Manchester), and from the
details furnished by the authors themselves, a fairly accurate estimate may be
made for each individual case of the actual amount of trypsin and of amylopsin
exhibited in the cases reported by Messrs. Ball and Thomas. In leaving the
report under notice it may be remarked, with some emphasis upon its scientific
value, that a similar estimate can be made in not a single one of the cases
described by Dr. Bainbridge. In view of more recent clinical work of others, it
may be stated that the amylopsin injections employed by Dr. Bainbridge were
very much too weak; that his four weaker trypsin injections, all of which I
have more than once tested, were in strength quite inadequate for their work;
and that regarding the fifth and strongest trypsin injection, the “ special
quadruple X,” which to my knowledge has never been sent to Great Britain, and
possibly never furnished to anyone except Dr. Bainbridge, I can say nothing,
beyond that I doubt whether it possesses more than 750 Roberts