Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-02-17
MAY BE CURE FOR CANCER
Buffalo Investigators Announce An I'M
pertant Discovery.

| pertant discovery.
, Investigators in the Glatwick Path
illogical Laboratory of the University
of Buffalo are preparing to annOunc &C
the discovery of the cause of cancer
J and an apparent cure for the disease.
The Buffalo laboratory is said to have
proved cancer to be parasitic disease,
Infectious in type; that it has been
transplanted and reproduced in per-
fectly healthy animals; that the re
production has been true cancer as 1T
exists in the human, and that the dis
ease in animals has been cured by the
administration of a serum pepared in
the Buffalo laboratory.
DIR. H. r. Gaylock, pathologist, and
DR.. 6. H. A. Cloves, chemist, together
with Mr.. Bauslack. of the cancer Ia
boratory of the State Department OF
Health, conducted the experiments.
They have been steadily studying car
Ger since 1899. They stale that they
performed a series Of experiments on
mice infected with cancer, which have
led to the discovery of an antitoxic
serum which visibly affects the growth
of cancer in mice, and in a number OF
cases has been sufficiently active to
cause the total disappearance and cure
of tumors of considerable siZe.''
1.-The mice used for these expert
ments," says the hereport. "were obtain
ed from Professor Jensen, of Copenha
gen, who very generously, about a year
ago, placed two white mice affected
with cancer at the disposal of DR.. Gay
lord, who succeeded in bringing them
across the Atlantic. Although the mice
died between New York and Buffalo,
inoculations from one OF them were
successful in several mice, and by re.
peated Transportation large number
of mice with cancer have been avail |
able for experimentation. The occur
renee which led to the discovery of the |
serum in question was the spontaneous
recovery of several mice which had !
been inoculated.
although cancer is generally con- !,
sidered to be lncurable. as these obser
vers point out, there are authentic
cases Of spontaneous cure of cancer in [
man reported in the literature.
1.-THE emphasis of the possibility OF
the animal overcoming the cancer led
the experimenters to investigate the
under which this occurred,
and, having for some time had in mind
the possibility OF the serum treatment
for cancer, they conducted a series of
which have proved be.
yond question that the blood of mice
which have recovered from cancer
possesses an antitoxic quality, and
when injected into mice suffering with
cancer stops the growth, and when the
tumors are not too large causes their
and leaves the mouse
30 protected that the tumors do not |
return.
Furthermore, the mice which have |
been cured by this serum treatment |
also possess in their blood an antitoxin
which works in similar way, show
ing that the cure of the tumors is the |
result of the development of special |
from cancer.
1.-The field which is opened by thes e |
primary experiments is apparently a
difficult one, but they should prove in |
that not only is cancer cnr- !,
able, but extend the hope that some
means may be found to develop SINH
lar immune serum which could be ap-
piled to human beings.
1.-THE changes which arc brought
about in the tum0rs in the mice are
similar to those which have been al
ready found in man, and the fact that
cancer patients have occasionally been
known to recover spontaneously shows
that there is apparently no discrepancy
between the conditions found in man
and those observed in mice.''