Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-28
CURED WITH TRYPSIN
DIR. RICE SAYS IT WILL CURE
CANCER OF LARYNX.

NEW YORK, November 2S-Dr. Clarence
c. Rice of the POSTGRADUATE Hospital of
this city reports to the medical profession
that he has cured cancer with trypsin, the
new pancreatic extract with which eminent
experts here and in England have been
experimenting for some months past.
The case was referred to him for treat
ment, DR.. Rice says, by DIR. Frank Hollis
ter. who had examined the patient a num-
Der Of times, and was positive 1t was
a true case of carcinoma, or cancer of the
larynx. He was seventy years old. His
mother had died Of cancer of the breast at
seventy-five. He was one of twelve chill
dren. Of whom nine ha ddied of consump
ton. Another brother had died of cancer
Of the kidney. The patient himself had
never been a hard drinker or smoker. In
December, 1905, he began to get hoarse.
He first came under DR.. Rice's observa-
ton In March, 1906, when his left VOCAL
cord was three-quarters covered with a
dry, hard, graysh enlargement.
The injections OF trypsin which Is an ex-
tract of the pancreatic gland. were repeated
every second day. Five minims diluted
with equal parts of water were injected
under the skin of the abdomen each day
for the first ten days After that the dose
was increased to seven and one-half minims
every other day, which was employed for
one week: later ten minims every
minims were injected every day, and finally
ten minims every day.
The Cancer Disappeared.
with these injections" says DIR. Rice,
was also administered holodin, which is
also an extract of the pancreatic gland.
We; gave it in three-grain capsules, one
three times day. The first effect of the
trypsin injection we noticed was conges-
ton and softening Of the laryngeal growth
From gray It became red. from hard 1t be-
came soft. and from dry 1t became moist.
The posterior fourth Of the growth sloughed
away in small pieces and had disappeared
after two weeks treatment. The surface
of the vocal band from which the slough
had disappeared was congested. but smooth,
and there was appearance of regrowth.
THE remainder of the growth was at all
times soft and moist. and two or three
pieces sloughed away. but when the pa
tient went to Europe. in the middle Of May,
three-quarters Of the length of the growth
was still present. In elevation it had some
what shrunken. About week before the
treatment was stopped the hoarseness was
suddenly increased. and we found that II
was due to a marked congestion Of the
other vocal cord. Whether this was caused
by an acute cold or by the effects Of the
medicine we could not tell"
Called Remarkable Cure.
Then DR.. Rice went to Europe and SO lost
track Of the patient for some time. On his
return. he says. he was almost afraid to in
quire about the condition Of his patient.
fearing the Lucrative thickness had extend
ed and that perhaps a radical surgical
operation had been demanded. But when
DR.. Rice called him UP over the telephone
the patient replied his voice was much i'm
proved and he felt perfectly well. He went
at once to DR.. Rce's Office. where 1t was
found the cancer had entirely disappeared.
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