TWO RECENT CASES
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medical
correspondents, that many cancer patients, even if cured of cancer, would
sooner or later fall victims to diabetes or Bright’s disease. In my scientific
opinion these are both diseases of the liver, and for diabetes the illustrious
physiologist, Claude Bernard, published this conclusion more than fifty years
ago.*
It
has been written: “We do not underestimate the value of temporary relief; but
even accepting all the statements of its advocates as absolutely trustworthy,
it is still conspicuously inferior in this respect to surgery. This is,
presumably, a reference to the enzyme treatment of cancer, which in years now
past, on the testimony, published and unpublished, of numerous physicians in
all parts of the world,, has given great and continued relief from pain and
suffering to the victims of cancer in cases where every device of surgery had
failed. If any man living know the equal of adequate injections of trypsin and
amylopsin in this respect, let him produce it. These ferments, trypsin and
amylopsin, have not— at least in the visible universe—their superiors, or even
their equals, as means of relief in cancer. Regarding the above citation, the
matter can be carried a little further. Surgery has never once succeeded where
trypsin and amylopsin had failed. On the other hand, as witness the published
York case, trypsin and amylopsin have succeeded where surgery failed—as it did
twice in this case.
CAPTAIN LAMBELLE’S COURSE OF TREATMENT.
1. Diet.—Avoid
acid-forming foods. No beef, no wine, no common salt, no vinegar. Stimulants,
when necessary, brandy or whisky. Reduce nitrogenous food
* For some of the
other reported successful cases vide Appendix G, p. 273.