New-York tribune., 1901-03-29
GOT CANCER GERM, HESAYS
PROFESSOR H. r. GAYLORD, OF BUF-
FALO, DECLARES IT TO BE \ PROTO-
ZOAN-DOUBT EXPRESSED HERE.

Buffalo, March ~ (SpeciaD.-At a special
meeting of the faculty of the University of
Buffalo and prominent physicians of Western
New York tonight Professor H. +. Gaylord, OF
the University OF Buffalo. explained his dis
covery of what he believes is the cause of
cancer. Professor Gaylords views are the re-
suits of two years work and are of interest to
physicians throughout the State because OF the
fact that cancer belt exists in this state.
In 1898 New-York State established patho-
logical laboratory at the University of Buffalo.
the prime object of which was to investigate
cancer. DR.. Roswell Park was general director
of the laboratory. and the pathological work
was under the dictatorship of Professor Gaylord.
who later assumed full charge. Early in the
work peculiar bodies were found in fresh
cinoma (better known cancer) which seemed
TO be quite constant in all cancer examinations.
but which were hard differentiate from cells
OF degeneration and fat. However. they did not
correspond to the ordinary reactions of fat In
one case serum from the abdominal cavity of a
patient suffering from cancer, which contained
these bodies in large numbers injected into
the venous system of rabbit, and later typi-
cal cancer lung developed in this animal.
Cultures of this organism We're injected into
the abdominal cavities of other animals and
again recovered. having apparently grown in
the serum of the animal. These bodies of
such varied form and. as has been mentioned
were so easily mistaken for cell degeneration
and similar bodies noted before by other OBJ
servers that this work was allowed to lie
quiescent from that time until recently.
In the mean time Professor Gaylord had
worked out possibilities OF the yeasts being
causative agents in the production OF cancer, and
he is finally able to say that they not. In
the same interval number Of observers had
IVb{ hoy fha
protozoan group TO which the common fresh
water amPba belonEs), which they thought
were probably the organisms of cancer. Within
the last few weeks Funke. a German observer.
has published results Of experiments with
cinia and variola. proving that these diseases.
closely allied 10 smallpox, are caused by proto-
1t was this discovery that led Professor Gay
lord to return TO his researches of two years
ago. He reasoned briefly that if these prOto-
Zoa which Funke saw were the cause of
yacciuia and variola then the bodies which he
has constantly seen in cancer, and which
similar in appearance and behavior to Funlle's
organisms We're in all probability the cause OF
cancer.
With this analogy in mind, he and his assist
ants continued their researches. and. a result
he now feels aoe 10 state that the organism of
cancer is undoubtedly 4 protozoan and that he
has at least preliminary proof that the bodies
which he finds the organisms.
A report TO this effect is 10 be made TO the
legislature at once by Professor Gaylord. To-
nights statement 10 the faculty Is the first that
importance, according to admissions made by
the physicians who were present
The researches of Professor Fl. r. Gaylord. of
Bl ffalo, to discover the cause of cancer have
aroused the interest Of many physicians in this
city A Tribune reporter visited a number of ply
sician5 yesterday obtain their opinions the
result Of the work of DR.. Gaylord When asked
for his opinion DR.. L. Duncan Bukey of No.
East Thirty-seventh-st said:
am heartily in accord with all the researches
made al the Buffalo laboratories to discover the
cause of cancer | believe that Drs. Gaylord and
Park are working in the right direction. They
are men worthy OF credenCe. TIE assertion that
cancer is caused by protozoan will generally
be accented until corrOborated by other OBJ
servers. | have seen in cancerous growth under
the microscope what said TO me to be PROTOCOL
DR.. E. L. Keyes jr.. of No lO9 East Thirty
fourth-st. said:
Work has been going in the lines followed by
DR.. Gaylord for some years past and various OBJ
claimed to discover different forms of
cells or organisms which they believed We're the
cause of cancer. But of these theories have
been generally accepted. This microbe or cell
OF Professor Gaylord would certainly require
extensive investigation for considerable time, both
at his own hands and tine hands of others. before
Dr. Warren Coleman, of Ne. ) West Thirteth-st
said
This theory as advanced by DR.. Gaylord is not
new. Attention first called I believe TO pro-
tozoan bodies by physician in England. The gen
animal parasites have anything 10 do with the
growth of cancer. The medical world has not vet
any definite opinion the subject II is a disputed
question.