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order
to allow the patient to enjoy the benefits of a stay by the sea. There is,
however, nothing, except possibly the X or Röntgen rays, which is so favourable
to the rapid growth and increase of cancer-cells as sea air. As asexual
generation—-the equivalent of cancer—first arose in the sea, the possible
reason of this may be obvious.
Finally,
the writer begs to intimate to possible correspondents that he does not
undertake to guarantee any particular preparations of pancreatic ferments. It
has indeed been suggested that the writer should “hold himself responsible for
the ferments being rightly furnished” to physicians who wish to “try” the
enzyme treatment. The guarantees must be sought from the manufacturers, and not
from one whose object in publishing these facts is merely to demonstrate beyond
contradiction, that the words he said, regarding the uses Nature made of the
secretion of the pancreas gland, at Liverpool on January 20, 1905, were true.
Moreover, the writer holds strongly, that it is the duty of the State to
provide and guarantee suitable injections of trypsin and of amylopsin, properly
standardized, and in this way not allow these to be exploited at times by
persons incompetent to make up scientifically standardized injections of the
kinds demanded by the treatment. Any work with the pancreatic enzymes, even the
making-up of ampoules of injections, calls for great scientific knowledge,
skill, and accuracy. As is well known to some, the enzymes are extremely
delicate bodies, and often, when the inexperienced experimenter thinks he has
got trypsin or amylopsin safely bottled and hermetically sealed up, all traces
of it as an active agent have vanished.
On
any point of difficulty arising out of the contents of this book, or in the
scientific treatment of cancer cases, he is prepared to reply, as in the past,
to all letters of a