The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-03
news OF THE SCIENCES
Study of Cancer Has Been
Along Wrong Lines
MOSQUITO THER0RY TEST
Unbreakab'e e Tableware Found
in Belgium.

At the annual meeting of the directors
of the London Cancer Hospital, the other
day. DIR. Herbert Snow, the senior sur
geon, d spe-
FALLACIOUS ciaiist Oh many
years stand
STUDY OF CANCER. ing, spoke Oh
the pr s C
prospects for the discovery of cancer
cure He said that he and his assocl-
ates had studied the disease as, TO the
best of his knowledge it had been STUDIED
nowhere else in the world They had Ia
bored by every means in their power 10
substitute for the mass Of chaotic con-
fusion and traditional fsilacy which had
hitherto prevailed genuine and precise
caucer-science as a sure foundation for
all future research. And in this attempt
they had failed-utterly and miserably
failed. And now on all hands they found
schemes of cancer research. Those also
must fail-must OF necessity fall-uncl
some step was taken to clear away all the
traditional lumber of past centuries and
TO formulate what precisely what was
known with certainty, what was known
only imperfectly, and what yet remained
to be ascertained. Cancer was not one
but many diseases, including as 1t did ten
genera and thirteen species. Each va
r:ety was established by a different cause
or chain of causes. Each probably re-
ouired a separate line Of research. He
had long thought that proper scientiflc
investigation OF the physiological rea-
sons for those remarkable diVersites, re
ferring mostly to the action Of the lymph
glands ON the cancer protoplasm, would
assuredly far advance the practical knowl-
elge of cancer, and might even lead up
eventually TO the ideal surgical cure. But
he heard no rumor Of any such contem-
plated investigation. At present all was
groping in the dark-or little more.
The Technolexicon, the great English
German-rench technical dictionary upon
which the Society of German Engineers
has been working
for years, is near A TECHNICAL
ing completion. 1t
will be monument DICTIONARY.
al collection of sci
entific and technical terms, in three Ian
guages. More than 800 technical socie-
ties have helped in the compilation of ma
terial for the dictionary, and over 900
firms and individuals have given or prom
ised assistance.
Two retired medical officers of the
French army who do not believe in the
mosquito theory of malaria. have offered
themselves as
TEST OF subjects o [.
experiment to
MOSQUITO THEORY. prove the JUS
tice of their
belief They will submit to be bitten by
mosquitoes previously pastured on malar-
ial sufferers and agree to take no drugs
whatever, either for prevention or treat
ment. They make the offer. following the
formation of an Algerian league for the
prevention of malaria, which proposes to
begin an actice fight against mosquitoes
ard ask grants of public moneys for the
purpose. In face of the large number Of
facts collected during the past two or
three years. confirming the mosquito the
ory the skepticisIn of the two French
doctors is somewhat difficult to account
for, except through lack of access to re-
cent literature
According to Frank w Mahin. United
States consul at Nottingham. England
about ,200,o00 acres are devoted TO grow
ing potatoes in Great
Britain, mostly Of va HYBRIpiZING
rieties which readily
succumb to disease, POTATOES
and therefore yield
little profit, and this has led 70 the prop
agation of hybridized disease-resisting
varieties. with remarkable results. Arch
ibald Findlay, of Markinch, Scotland. is
the originator of the Eldorado. He has
long been an expert in hybridization of
the tuber, and has hencefore given to the
world several varieties However. every
variety of potato, as agriculturists well
know. steadily deteriorates in cropping
and disease resisting powers till it reach
es a point where it can no longer he
profitably raised. This point is reached,
growers state, in few years generally
and in twelve or fifteen years at the very
utmost There is. however. one stay
err recorded, which has been profitably
yielding now for about thirty years.
working model will he shown at the
St Louis Exposition of the mororan. or
railway using only s. single rail. which
IS TO be built
WORKING MODEL if all goes
Wen between
OF THE MONORAIl. Liverpool and
AInnches [ ( T.
England. The cars will hans upon the
apex OF a structure like a capital a"
with the rail at its top. The speed Of
this novel line of transportation is ex-
pected TO be 10 miles an hour. and the
hackers of the enterprise believe that en-
tire safety IS assured.
II is stated that a government commit
tee has been appointed in Paris 10 in
Vestigate the use Of raw horse flesh in
the treatment Of tu-
bercuIosis and other MINCED
diseases. On the COM
nittee are well known HORSE MEAT.
men. Prof Debove.
dean Of the Paris faculty Of medicine.
and Prof Barrier Of the Veterinary