212 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
Were
he asked, he would undoubtedly say: “On the contrary, since cancer is asexual
generation or trophoblast, in its treatment, all questions concerning the
irresponsible trophoblast do concern us.” To this I would add, to a far greater
degree than the use of the knife upon a living “irresponsible trophoblast “or
cancer. The critics have, by common consent, been silent all along concerning
the scientific grounds of the enzyme treatment of cancer. But to the scientific
man first and foremost comes the question : “ What is your attitude towards
scientific general principles ?“
It
is really remarkable with what persistence the identity of sarcoma and
carcinoma is denied by the medical profession—almost without exception. Since
the writing of this book was finished this supposed “ fact “ of the absence of
identity has been affirmed from the medical side. Doubtless the writer will
hear again and again the old, old fable, that sarcoma and carcinoma are very
different things, and that the York case was only one of sarcoma—of a
very malignant type.* In anticipation, it may be pointed out that, apart from
other considerations,** the course and outcome of the York case were exactly
in parallel with those of the Naples case of inoperable carcinoma (epithelioma)
of the tongue, for among other things, here as there, the remains of the tumour
finally shelled out “ like the kernel of a nut.” The like is true of Lambelle’s
unreported case
* The charts demonstrate this abundantly. Professor
Fried-rich Henke describes the “ small-celled round-celled “ sarcoma as one of
the most malignant of the sarcomata (Mikroscopische Geschwulstdiagnostik, Jena,
1906. p. 107).
** As long ago as 1904, I detected under the microscope the epithelial
cell “ among the tumour-cells of several slides of sarcomata, purchased from
two Leipzic dealers. This find was one of the things which led me to the
conclusions of the mimicry of the malignant tumours, and of the fundamental identity
of carcinoma and sarcoma.