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from
the degenerating tumour, or from the portions in degeneration. In my experience
cases have occurred where the physician, being convinced that the tumour was
dead, and that the remains might best be left “ to come away of themselves,”
has permitted the patient to remove himself far from all medical supervision,
with the inevitable result that a fatal toxaemia has ended the case.
Assuming
the treatment to be continued for at least four full months, or 120 days, in
this rigorous fashion— a thing which experience in York and elsewhere has
proved possible—then it can be stated that the patient received in this time at
least 1,000 x 60 to 1,000 x 120 tryptic units, and 2,000 x 6o to 2,000 x 120
amylolytic units, or in all 60,000 to 120,000 tryptic units and 120,000 to
240,000 amylolytic units—in words, from sixty to one hundred and twenty
thousand tryptic units, and from one hundred and twenty thousand to two hundred
and forty thousand amylolytic units. As one instance, the case described by
Captain Lambelle received in 120 days about 60,000 tryptic units, according to
calculations made from the charts.
In
the Uppingham case of cancer of the stomach and liver, the physician did not
allow me to make the requisite calculations from the charts taken; but from
other sources the amount of trypsin injected would appear to have been 63,000
units, and of amylopsin 94,000 units. As will be seen, this amount much exceeds
the total injected by Messrs. Ball and Thomas, not in one, but in nine test”
cases: trypsin, 63,000 units against 30,000 units; and amylopsin, 94,000 units
against the miserable total of 16,000 units in these experiments. It may be
added that certain hospitals which “ tested “ the treatment, with weak trypsin
injections in small doses, never obtained