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malignant
disease. In the first instance, always provided that scientifically prepared
and pure ferment preparations were used, there would be no obvious reactions,
no rigors, and no rises of temperature. At most there would be increase in
weight, due to increased and improved metabolism, and a sense of well-being on
the part of the “patient.” But, again, what enormous differences occur when the
patient is suffering from cancer ! Reactions. obvious ones, may then be looked
for with certainty, and these alone would, in my opinion, be a sufficient
diagnosis of cancer, if such complications as tuberculosis could be excluded.
Let it be repeated, and with emphasis, that small and weak doses of injections
are useless. Even as I write these lines there comes a report of violent
reactions from even the injection of five drops of strong trypsin* in a case
where large masses of cancer were present. The small, almost insignificant,
amount of trypsin in use here was attempting a task beyond its powers—to wit,
the complete breaking up of the cancer-substance it had attacked. With a much
larger dose, given along with an equal amount of strong genuine amylopsin,
there would be present sufficient of each of the ferments—trypsin and
amylopsin—to break up the portions of cancer attacked completely into simple
harmless products, and such violent effects would not, in my opinion, be
encountered.
I
have always maintained that, were I treating cases, my own treatment would
commence with the injection of, say, 1,000 units of trypsin and 2,000 units of
amylopsin,
* An interesting commentary upon
Bainbridge’s statement in his report (p. 7): “From this it will be seen how
absurd were some of the earlier claims of “cures,” as well as the strange
symptoms and ‘ terrific” results from the small doses employed.” In this case,
in Chicago, one of the strong Fairchild injections employed by Bainbridge was
in use on August 12, 1911.