New-York tribune., 1903-04-20
NEW THEORY OF CANCER.
Due to Chemistry of Blood, 1t Is
Said, Not Parasite.
ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE MADE SOON

For MANY months number of well known
hac+eriologists and toxicologists, assisted by
many medical students and other persons have
been striving to discover the cause or cancer
and cancerous growths. These workers in re
search fields are identified with the Cornell Uni
versity Medical College, and their investigations
as 10 the cause of cancer have been made in
the clinics and laboratories of that school in
this city In a few days the results Of the inves-
tigations SO far made will probably be fully re-
vealed in a paper written by DR.. Bertram H.
Buxton, the we'll known bacteriologfst and gen
eral scientist This paper will contain, accord
ing to a trustworthy source, the message
that the cause of cancer has at last been
discovered and that this truth has been proved
to the satisfaction of number OF men VINO
stand high in the science of medicine.
1t was under the direction Of DR.. Buxton and
Professor r. August Witthaus that most of the
work in this field was done, and therefore to
these two men must the credit be given.
Briefly. the investigs tions have revealed, ac-
cordng to the statements made:
First-That cancer is due TO the chemistry of the
Second-That every part or tissue of a cancer
has the power of producing fern1entation
ton the cancerous tissues are akin TO the tissues
u Fourth|That by proving this theory the theory
that cancer was due to parasite was dsproVeo'
The first step of the investigators was TO find
the cause for the disease Now they Will undoubt-
" use everything within their means
to find how to avert or cure the disease. Accord
ing to the informant Dr. Buxton, when he be-
came assured that cancer developed from GER
tain chemical changes in the blood, took up the
work of finding a cure. It Is said that he has
already found a cure for sarcOma, klnd OF
cancer. and that this cure is the injection OF
ervsipeIas germs into the blood of the sufterer
sneakiny of this cure. a physician said last
night:
The efficacy Of the cure has been demonstrated
we Hospital, in the presence OF many physlclalis
and medical students Unfortunately, sarcorna Is
not The ,ommonest type of cancer nave seen
a rrn7ber of men and women who suffered with
and who submitted TO the treatment In the nos
nitaI wa rds there usually about thirty persons
who have erysipelas. The germs OF eryslpe4as Were
taken from some of these patients ana lnJecIed
latter were at once afflicted with erysipelas, and
when they got we'll Of that disease they were cured
Of sarconna Just what chemical changes IN the
blood are produced by the germs or eTysipelias pti
cannot tell But there Is no DOUBT thaI tIose
1arn,s will ca use such changes in human blood as
Go annfhilate sarcoma. If all cancers We're Sar-
COuas we would no longer nave 10 look loi d Cuio
for other types of cancer. . - . .
In the work done in determining the cause OF
cancer l have certain powers possessed py
cause sugar. meat, etc. to be completely changed
by fermentation
The investigators. 1t is said. were considerably
helped in their work by aid given to them by
number Of hospitals for cancer patients.