240 THE ENZYME TREATMENT OF CANCER
enzymes
or ferments, trypsin and amylopsin, which help the intracellular enzymes to
build them up. (3) Cancer-cells attack and pull down the living laevo-rotatory
albumins. (4) As racemic acid is a mixture of dextro and laevo-tartrates, which
are attacked respectively by the mould (Penicillium) and by yeast (Torula),
and are separable by them—or, more strictly, by the ferments they
produce—so also a living human being, suffering from the natural phenomenon, not
disease, known as cancer, is in a sense a mixture of two sorts of albumins— the
laevo-rotatory ones of the body, and the dextro-rotatory ones of cancer. (5)
As Torula (yeast) attacks the laevo-tartrate, so cancer-cells attack and
pull down the laevo-rotatory albumins of the body; and as the mould (Penicillium)
acts upon dextro-tartrates, so, when administered in adequate doses, and
such as are more than sufficient to neutralize the antitryptic ferments of
cancer, trypsin and amylopsin, the powerful pancreatic enzymes, attack in life
and pull down the dextro-rotatory albumins of cancer. (6) The albumins of
cancer are stereo-isomers of those of the body, and the antitheses of these;
and as the latter are laevo-rotatory, the albumins of cancer are dextro-rotatory.
(~) The crucial test of the true nature of the albumins of cancer may be made
by submitting a solution of them to an examination in the polarimeter, when
this solution will be found to rotate the plane of polarized light to—the right
The
reader may not cherish the fond delusion that as yet there are no evidences of
an observational kind supporting the thesis that the albumins of cancer are
dextro-bodies. There are, and these are of a decisive nature, although not to
be found in the published researches of any official cancer research body. As
the chemist Emil Fischer remarked, a ferment fits the sub-