Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-05-27
NEW CURE FOR CANCER:
DAYS OF DISEASE NUMBERED

Berlin Correspondence of the New
York World: Three medical author
tiles. two of whom are known the
world over as scientists of the first
rank, announce that cancer will soon
be under control.
The first TO announce the discovery
of the cancer bacillus was Professor
Ernest Won Leyden, who has been
lecturer at the Berlin university for
a quarter of century and who, as
director of the chief medical clinic.
helped to put the finishing touches
upon the professional education of
hundreds of American physicians.
DIR. Won Leyden said to the Sunday
World Magazine correspondent that he
had made cancer his special study for
many years and that as president of
the national committee for cancer
Investigation he had had occasion to
review the labOrs of many valued CO.
workers i'm this interesting field.
Il am happy to say" declared DIR.
Won Leyden. that there is little doubt
now that we will have cancer under
control within a short while. l will
be 20 on the Goth of this month, but
expect to see my efforts toward the
conquering of cancer crowned with
practical success.
I'VE know now positively. after so
many false alarms. that cancer is
caused by distinct organism. a para
site perceptible under the microscope.
a living thing that we can make and
destroy.
Furthermore. my experiments
show positively that the cancer is
contagious. a matter which has here
tofore been under dispute. 1t is also
hereditary. but the descendants of
cancer sufferers need not worry. Far
more men and women escape il than
inherit it,
Professor Won Leyden added that
he was continuing the experiments.
aided by number of scientists and
practical investigators. Every day"
he said. adds to our fund of knowI-
edge and helps us in the persistent
war upon that most merciless and
cruel disease.
Medical Counselor Behlo. Military
Surgeon Won Waselewsski. Professor
Lubarch and Professor Won Hause-
mann fully indorsed all Won Leyden
had said. Won Lcyden gave them am
pie opportunity to investigate his dis
covery. and after what they have
seen they do not hesitate to say that
the days of cancer. as an uncontroll-
ed and rapidly increasing disease. are
numbered"
As members of the National Com
mittee for Cancer Investigation they
especially agree with Won Leyden on
the question of the righteousness of
cancer. "a fact which should find
world wide publicity for the benefit
of healthy but careless people" said
DR.. Won Hausemann. These author
tiles also uphold Won Leyden's opin-
ion that cancer is not necessarily a
hereditary disease.
Professor Doyen. of Paris. who is
attending the surgeons congress. now
meeting here. corroborated the state
ments of DIR. Won Leyden. lie main
tains, however, that he. not Leyden,
discovered the cancer bacillus.
Il have been breeding cancer ba-
cili for some time. and the cultures 1
got in Paris would suffice to inocu-
late the inhabitants of n city he size
of London with the deadly disease"
he declared.
Il also succeeded in proving, prac-
tically. that cancer is contagious
more contagious than consumption.
At home | have Il little menagerie.
Every animal in il is suffering from
some malignant form of cancer which
l have inoculated into him from the
bacillus bred"
One of Won Leyden's distinguished
coworkers is DR.. Loeffler. professor
at the University of Griefswald. He
thinks cancer can be driven out by
malaria, theory announced some
little time ago, but never fully eN-
planned.
Speaking of his experiments, Pro-
fessor Loeffler said:
IL don't claim originality: I con-
fess that study of ancient works of
medicine gave the first impulse to my
present theory. Hippocrates, living
400 years before Christ, discovered
that malaria was liable to kill cancer
Gus diseases in the human body.
another old time physician whose