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He and other Authorities Assert that
the Disease l. Contagious and To
BE Carefully Guarded Against.
IT MAY ALSO BE HEREDITARY
THEORY THAT 1T NAY BE CURED BY
MALARIA INOCULATION.
Medical Scientists Agree that the
Dread MaIady VIII soon he
Under Control.

BERLIN. April 1O.-Three medical au-
thorities. two Of whom are known the
world over as scientists Of the first rank.
announce that cancer will soon be under
control. As this dread disease claims more
American lives year after year. increasing
at a greater rate than even consumption.
your correspondent secured interviews with
the scientists.
The first 20 announce the discovery of tho
cancer bacillus was Professor Ernest Won
Leyden, who has been a lecturer al tie
Berlin University for a quarter OF q cen
fury. and IS director of the chief medical
clinic helped to put the finishing touches
TO the professional education of hundreds
of esteemed American physicians.
DR.. Won Leyden told your correspondent
that he had made cancer his special study
for many years and that as president OF
the National Committee for Cancer Inves-
~tigation he had occasion to review the La
bors of many valued coworkers in this in
teresting and mysterious field.
I'VE are never done in our profession"
continued DR.. Won Leyden. but l am hap
Ply TO say that there is little doubt now
that we will have cancer under control
within a short while. 1 will be seventy on
the Goth of this month, but expect 10 see
my efforts towards the conquering of cancer
crowned with practical success. What a
boon IL will be for suffering humanity
II think 1 can say this TO the lay public;
We know now positively after so many
false alarms that cancer is caused by q
distinct organism a parasite perceptibls
under the microscope, a living thing that
we can make and destroy.
A CONTAGIOUS
Furthermore. my experiments show
positively that cancer is contagious, a mat
ter which has heretofore been under dis
pute and doubtless caused the death OF
thousands of people.
Cancer is contagious and also hereditary.
but the descendants of cancer sufferers need
not worry. The disease is not necessarily
hereditary. Far more men and women es-
cape it than inherit L.
Prof. Won LeTSen was good S5Ssh 10
show your correspondent a number OF
Photographic plates. drawings and other
scientific apparatus illustrating the exk-
tence of parasites I'm cancerOus tumors al
in the body of cancer-stricken people.
These have been prepared with most nil
nute care at immense expense, borne by the
Berlin University.
Il hope" said DIR. Won Leyden, that
American physicians visiting the continent
this summer will visit our institute and in
vestigate for themselves. We have here tina
richest material in that line ever gathered
and will be only too glad TO exhibit 1t to
our American friends whose cooperation
in scientific studies proved of the greatest
value to US time and again"
Prof. Won Leyden added hat he is con-
tlnuing the experiments aided by a number
Of scientists and practical Investigators.
Every day. he said. adds to our fund OF
knowledge and helps US in the persistent
war upon that merciless and cruel disease
If l live long enough 10 see our present
experiments crowned with success on a
large. universal scale 1 will think my lifs's
work we'll done, indeed"
Medical Counselor Behlo. Military Sur
geon Won Waselewsski. Professor Lubarsch
and Professor Won H-ansemann, TO whom
your correspondent submitted the above
fully Endorsed all Won Leyden had said.
Won Leyden gave them ample opportunity
to investigate his discovery. and after what
they have seen they do not hesitate to say
that the days of cancer. as an uncon-
trolled and rapidly increasing disease. are
numbered"
"a AAo - ~ aNA1AAa
for cancer Investigation they especially
agree with Won Leyden on the question OF
the contagiousness of cancer. "a fact
which should find worldwide publicity for
the benefit of healthy but careless people"
said DIR. Won Hansemann. These authori-
ties also uphold Won Leyden's opinion that
cancer is not necessarily a hereditary dis
ease.
ANOTHER CLAIMS HONOR.
Professor Doyen. of Paris. who is attend
ing the Surgeons Congress now meeting
here. told your correspondent practically
the same as DR.. Won Leyden. He main
tains. however. that he. not Leyden. dis
covered the cancer bacillus and that he
can prove that he was first in making the
announcement.
II have been breeding cancer bacillus for
some time and the cultures l got in Paris
would suffice TO inoculate the inhabitants
of a city OF the size OF London with the
deadly disease" he continued.
II also succeeded in proving. practically.
that cancer is contagious-more contagious
than consumption. At home 1 have a little
menagerie chained up; every animal in it
is suffering from some malignant form Of
cancer or other. which 1 have inoculated
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The rest OF Professor Doyen's remarks
concerned themselves with the priority
question. whether he or Dr. Won Leyden
was first 10 discover the conqueror OF can
Ger. but In that the public Is not interested.
One OF Won Leyden's distinguished CO.
workers is Or. LOefier, professor al the
University Of Greifswald. lie thinks can
Ger can be driven out by malaria, a theory
announced some little while ago. but never
fully explained.
Speaking Of his experiments. Prof. Loef-
fer said 10 your correspondent:
II do not claim originality. I confess that
study OF ancient works OF medicine gave
the first impulse TO my present theory.
Hippokrates. living four hundred years be-
fore Christ. discovered that malaria is like
ly TO kill on cancerOus disease IN The hu-
man body. II would be both uaclcss and
tiresome 10 substantiate what o srft before
a lsy audience Arle:ieau m - men
who desire 10 see FOR themselves n.ey con-
suit Hippokrates. Epidemiorum VI. Section
9, Chapter ) and same author 1. Section :