The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-09-28

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A sszss~nf In the New York Cancer ho~-
rStal accidentally became snoculatsd
with the viru. Of eryapelas several weeks
ago. AS the disease Progressed IL wa
noticed that the Patients cxnceroas con-
difson improved This fact sugg-sts-a 70
/ Dr. William T. Bnii the sdvisahaiiry Of
/ inoculating other patient. with the
+ Iziscan II sry-ipelas- Accordingly several
ea.ss wers st apart ard experiments
were begun and carried cot by DR. w.
| b. Coley under the direction Of DIR. Bull
/ The NEGOTIATIONS were made not only on
/ patients with carcinoma commonly
! known ~ cz-ncerl. t~t also on others who
were suffering from sarccma, which 10 y
much more malignant form Of tunor
than the ordinary cancer. The results
E in both forms were very satisfactory.
Fer inoculating purposes a pure cul-
ture of the strepsococcus Was used III
/ the cases of carcinoma about 25 Per cent
were reported cured, while IN the sar-
comai rns cases the results were even
better. showing as many as 10 per cent
of those experimental upon to have BE-
come well and free after the attack Of
erysipeias.
| 1t has been said that whatever good
I has resulted was due to the local reac-
| ton. This theory is apparently dis
| proved by the fact that NEGOTIATIONS
made at a distance from the tumor have
been known 10 cause il to disappear.
The injections as a rule were made
into the tunlor itself and were repeated
every ~ hours The reaction produced
was almost identical with that produced
by true erysipeias, though in most OF the
cases it was milder in degree, passing
away within - TO - hours The dan
gers attending this form Of treatment
are insignificant when one considers the
usual outcome of a case OF cancer, or
sarcoma, which is almost invariably IA
tai. The subject of cancer Is not gener-
ally understood. What is popularity
known as cancer includes many differ
emit forms Of tumors, such as carcinoma,
Of which there are four varleties-the
spheroidal celled, which includes the
hard and soft cancers: what is known as
epithelioma, the form usually seen af-
fecting the lip: the cylindrical celled,
and the colloid.
OF sarcomata the surgeons also make
four subdivisions-the round celled, spin
die celied, mixed celled and the myeloid,
or giant celled. For other than scien-
tifc purposes the subdivisions are hardly
necessary, as the various forms Of sar-
comata are all said to be very malignant.
In the report written by DR.. Cooley he
concludes: First, that the curative ef-
feet of erysipelas upon malignant tu-
luors is an established fact; second. the
action upon the sarcoma is invariably
more powerful than upon carcinoma in
about the ratio of three to one; third.
the treatment Of inoperable malignant
humors by repeated NEGOTIATIONS of cry
sipelas Is both practicable and not at
4 tended with great risk; fourth, the cur.
alive action is systematic and probably
due chiefly to the toxic products Of the
streptococcus. which products may be
isolated and used without producing
erysipelas, and, fifth, that the method Of
incubation should not be employed In
discriminatory until further clinical ex
periments have proved its limitations.
New York World.