Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-06
"cancroin" for Cancer.
London Chronicle.1

In the Lancet Of last week appears
an account of two cases or internal
cancer in women, published by Profes-
sor Adamkiewicz of Vienna, cured by
the use of a substance called can
Groin" The interest in this subject VIII
undoubtedly draw the attention OF the
nubltc to these cases. One case had al
ready been published In a foreign med
zeal journal. The second case IL at
tested by the medical attendant OF the
patient, DR.. Karl Stock OF vienna. III
June, 1900, undoubted symptoms OF
cancer were present. BY May 1911. the
professor says, the patient was ireeo
from her ma1ady, and at the beginning
Of October, 1901, h called upon MIN
to thank him mot only for her recoV-
ery, but for its permanence." Perhaps
some medical men will urge that 1t IS
somewhat too soon to assert the per-
manency OF the cure In this case, u
the condition Of the patient In OCTOBER
last presents so marked a contrast to
her state in June, 1900, as diagnosed by
eminent Vienna specialists, that no
doubt can exist of at least a very re-
%markable change for the better In her
condition. Doubles Professor Adam
kievtcx's cases will attract
attention everywhere. and CAMERON
will be experimentally tried In this
other countries in medical practice.
What we shall require to know IS
whether the remedy acts successfuliy
or acts at all, in all cases OF the disease,
and uniformly In the many varieties OF
he ailment which present themselves
ID The marc statement
of two cases successfully tret ed can
not constitute any definite proc tnata
remedy Of universally sure n certain
nature has been discovered Tor this Tell
disorder. But the prospect, at least IS
a hopeful one.
Cameron, the substance used by Pro-
lessor A~damkiewicZ, is a substance de-
rived from cultivation of the microbes
with parasites which are credited win
the cause of cancer. Presumably. this
Is the nature Of the remedy. II 80, II
is allied to the serum treatment OF
d%iphtheria, lockjaw, typhoid fever n
other ailments. The principle repre-
scented in it's use is that whereby the
germs of a disease used to inoculate an
animal produce in its blood a substance
called an "anti-toxin," this latter m
played In turn in the incubation Of the
human patient cures the disease. The
germ products produced by their
growth In the animals blood are used,
in other words, to fight and overcome
the microbes that are laying the human
patient low. Diphtheria anti-toxin,
thus obtained from the blood Of a horse,
is used daily in private and hospital
practice for the cure of that ailment.
It ma be held that the use Of CAMERON
must imply a knowledge of the exact
germ of cancer, a piece of information
we do not at present possess. But 1t
would appear that CAMERON is prepared
from what are styled the poisonous
products OF cancer, and this term we
may take to imply simply the substance
or fluid extracts Of cancerous tumors
The Lancet expresses itself as being &c
little skeptical" regarding the results
likely to be obtained by a more extend
ed use Of this remedy. 1t is to be hoped
that this skepticism will not prevent the
fair trial OF CAMERON in both cases of
cancer similar to those cured by the
Vienna physician and in other varieties
Of the ailment.'