Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-06
Found by Otto Schmidt, a.
German Physician.
MAY BE ABLE TO CURE
DISCOVERY MARKS GREAT AID.
VANCE IN TREATMENT.
Serum for Antitoxic Use Has Been De.
veloped-An Interest.
ing Paper.

The New York Herailds European edi-
ton today prints the following from its
London correspondent:
A new treatment of cancer, which is be-
heved at least to mark an important adj
vance, even If it does not prove to be O.
cure. was explained last night before q
meeting Of the Abernethian Society of ST.
Bartholomew's Hospital by DR.. jesse John.
| son, London physician who has been exc
aiming the methods employed by DIR. Otto
Schmidt of Cologne.
A few months ago the wife OF a well.
known millionaire learned that she was
suffering from cancer An eminent Lon.
don surgeon refused to operate, owing to
the hopelessness of her case. She there
upon became a patient OF DR. Otto Schmidt,
and derived 80 much benefit from his treat
ment that her husband dispatched DR.. jesse
Johnson to investigate DR.. Schmidt's meth
ods The result OF his observations was
given last night
''Dr. Schmidt's opinion" he said, els that
cancer Is conditional on the presence In
the patient of a cancer parasite which pro.
duces q structural change in the cells Of
the part affected. There has been no DIFF.
hculty In finding parasites associated with
cancer. Geyford in America. Plimmer in
this country and Schiller have all discovs
cred and very fully described a compare
lively large number of these parasites
Parasite Discovered.
1.-THE difficulty has been to decide which,
II any. Of them is the cause OF cancer. DR..
Schmidt believes he has isolated the spe-
Der Of parasites associated with cancer is
Der of parasites associated with cancer is
that they are one and the same varying
In shape and appearance under different
conditions. BY altering the conditions DR..
Schmidt says his parasite assumes all the
different appearances which have led to
Its being described by other searchers as
several parasites
with this parasite DR.. Schmidt has done
two thfngs-he seems to have sterilized It
with liquid air and he has also injected 1t
into animals and developed a serum which
has the power Of destroying cancer cells.
Sterilfzed parasites he used for one treat.
ment which he calls actroi Animal serum
he used for his second treatment. Most of
his treatment has been carried out with
the first method.
Testing the Serum.
HE found on injecting the first prepara-
ton that In eight or ten hours the patient
became feverish and cancerous, and the
growth became painful and infiamed. Both
preparations were tried on healthy persons,
including DR.. Johnson, and produced no re-
suits. These injections are the first treat
ment. This is the strongest form. Tho
serum Is a more attenuated form, suitable
for cases where the patient is much weak
ened"
According to DIR. Johnson, Dr. Schmidt
has dealt with twenty-nine cases. In one
of these the patient was proved, by not re-
spending to the injection, not to be suffer-
ing from cancer. An operation proved that
the growths from which she suffered were
not malignant.
DR.. Johnson described in detail the eff
fects of these injections upon various pa
tfents. One was woman who had UNDER
gone no fewer than six operations for re-
moval of cancer of the breast. She had
also malignant growth on her forehead.
which 1T was considered quite hopeless to
attempt to remove. AS a result of DR..
Schmidts treatment by injections there
was a great gain in the patients general
health and the growth on the forehead
shrank to a mere scar.
Three Things Required.
For the cure of cancer DR.. Schmidt re.
quires three things: Arrest of the process.
removal of the growth and the fact that
no vital organ has been seriously injured.
DR.. Johnson's conclusions as to the ad-
vantages Of the treatment We're thus sum-
med up:
From the case quoted 1t would appear
that the treatment reduces malignant
tumors to the level of an innocent growth,
and therefore limits their spreading powers
and renders their removal effective"
DR.. Johnson put forward this treatment
with the greatest reserve. He objected to
its being at present called a cure. There
is much to be done before that can be-
claimed but DR.. Johnson is going to give
the method a trial In England. and in the
discussion which followed his report in
which many eminent medical men took
part the general feeling was that while a
cautious reserve was necessary in the face
of so many previous disappointments in the
field of cancer research, on the whole O.
case had been made out for trial to be
given to DR. Schmidt's method