The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-10
THE TIMES D1sPATCf RICHMOND AUGUST 1906
wlll hot .have IN equallyI sad and de-

will not have an equally sad and de-
plorable outcome.
ii MeClure's Magazlre fo +, Au .,g},s ls
trypsIfi injections In tho treatment Of
thja disease rho author. Dr. 9. w.
SaIeeby describes the researches made
by beard Of Edinburgh, which led Nm. Nm
to tho employment Of THIS rel,nedly, ana
4perlments on mice and two Incomplete
trials OF trypsin Injections In man pro
claims that at last g deflnite career an cure
has been found '"rhe living of the
these Facts, he says II conclusion !, /, III,
..scens 10 be- d proce eding frorri which
III would be cruel and cowardly to re-
ifraln". And what IRE the I, ffa q. which
4 would be cruel and cowardy ,,, ons 81 20
arc reported, Iii neither Of which an NIB
occurred. and In ono Of which Il .is ae Z,
knowle1gcd that the pa tent - yet IN
p poIhssf 9 ACTON tS va re
products Of tho growth" and two cases cas-
neither OF which had the t,linor tlissaps
ffared when ama Il, ann
of "degeneration."' IA /. i, !. y .E 4. Il, Il
3i5 a report such as this might be pub
lished In 4 professionai journal with
an apology from the author Tor the paul
CIlyit tGttSES, b. COY
for It would stimulate to q trial Of the
remedy by others 4 and SO lead to the
collection Of sufficient d1ta upon which
to base an Intelligent opinion OF the
value Of the treatmeil Ihe medl it,a
aEnosis, and familiar With the ertatic
course Of malignant growths, would ac-
cepti the report with reserve and await
the results ofsSurtherSa experimentation
before abandoning the knife and com-
mitting his patients to the pcrils of an
iuntried or.iat# least, & improved, ren1edy.
But the laylr1an who had been told that
q canccrous tumor had bee n seen to melt
away under tho Influence 81 arypsln IN,
absolutely certain remedy had been dis
covered. and would refuse the knife IN
his own case. possibly and probably With
fatal result ,S515 II G5 ,sf
for maglignant disease has been discov-.
cred. and the. cases q 5 gear, AN, ana OF
teps work on cancer, raise the hope
that this may be true; but these eases :.
offer encouragement $ for further trials.
When, as Gaylord said In his paper read
before the Medical society.of the county
of Kings, reported Inv another column OF
Ger In mice took place 4 n 20 per cent. Of
his laboratory cases. i is objectionable
ia announce to the world a that trypsin
is a certain cure for the y disease because
llnStwo mice which had received the in
tjections tthe tpmors were found 4 in q
condition OF repression u even when this
evidence Is strengt hened by two uncon-
yinclng cases In man. Even IN the happy
event OF the discovery OF an q ctual cure
for cancer. the premature announcement
of the fact In a lay magazine before the
remedy has become familiar&to tho pro-
Efession and the proper ms thod of Its a ~
5plication has been Iesta blished, must be
3deplored AT the best Sit exposes the
remedy to5the fate OF tuberculln, and, at
the worst i, 1t raises false hopes In the
minds Of many sufferers from operable
cancer, which will lead e them to reject
the surgical measures, which are rs yet
the only ones which the conscientious
physician can advise. ----AIedlqal. Record.