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“test cases,” apart from other conditions of a scientific test, he must be
prepared to produce scientific evidences that the preparations he employed were
what they pretended to be. As I have no preparations upon the market, the onus
is upon him, and it will not suffice as a scientific test of any value at all
if he produce, as Messrs. Ball and Thomas did, mere elementary qualitative
evidences that “in each instance the solutions were found to be potent” (Reports
of the Middlesex Hospital, 1907, No. 6, p. 19).
7. Again, a South American physician once
informed the writer that in South America all sorts of things had been offered
for sale and used under the name of “trypsin,” some of them possibly with the writer’s
name attached to them, as did indeed happen, without his consent or knowledge,
in Italy. I do not suppose that matters were on the whole much better in the
Old World. Among other happenings a preparation was advertised as “a proteolytic
and amylolytic ferment “—that is to say, as a ferment possessing both
proteolytic and amylolytic powers.
8. It has been pointed out recently to the
writer by a medical friend, that in every disease there is a period beyond
which success in treatment cannot be hoped for or expected, and the like is
true of cancer. It is, therefore, in the highest interests of the patient
that, for example, there should be no delay for futile operations. During such
times the mischief is progressing, possibly slowly but surely, and the above
period is getting nearer and nearer. When the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin and
amylopsin, will act upon so-called “ normal tissues
(Bainbridge
and Blumenthal), this period has been reached or passed. Though for the sake of
humanity the treatment may be given in such cases, it is not, scientifically
regarded, intended for these cases. As