Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-02
SURE CURE FDRCANC[R
DR.. John Beard, University of
Edinburgh, Makes a Valua-
BILE Discovery
EXPERIMENTS WITH MICE MADE
Complete Destruction Of the Dread
Disease by Treatment With Trypsin,
the Characteristic Ferment of the
Pancreatic Juice, Clearly illustrated
in These Interesting Experiments.

New York March "A specific cure
for cancer apparently has been discov-
cred by DR.. John Beard of the Uni
versity of Edinburgh according to an
article in Harper's Weekly for the COM
ing Saturday, written by DR.. c. w. Sa-
leeby whose discoveries in the problem
of the origin of life give great weight
to his account of DIR. Boards expert
ments.
1T scenes more than probable"
writes DR.. Saleeby, that in trypsin has
specific poison which must exist for
every cell. Only the philosophic few
could have guessed for moment that
DR. Boards long and famous researches
would ever enable him-as they would,
indeed, appear to have enabled him =
to place in the hands of the physician
veritable cure for cancer"
Destruction of Disease.
Trypsin, the seeming agent of de-
struction of the cancer cell, is defined
by DR.. Saleeby as 1.-THE characteristic
ferment of the pancreatic juice, re-
markable but quite familiar substance.
Experiments with trypsin have been
made on several thousand cancerous
mice and also on human beings with
the conclusion by both DR.. Beard and
Dr. Shaw Mackenzie, according to DR..
Saleeby, that "trypsin is the substance
which will destroy the cancer cell with
ease and without danger to the individ-
ual"
The experiments Of DR.. Beard have
not been completely described, but
enough of them is known to warrant
the general conclusion stated In the
foregoing quotation. Describing the
experiments. DIR. Saleeby writes:
There is in existence a famous
cancerous tumor known as Jensen's
mouse tl1nor. It arose about four years
ago in a mouse, and has since been
transplanted into some three thous-
and mice successfully, all of which
are now dead. Yet the tumor cells
themselves are multiplying in other
mice with undiminished activity and
producing enormous masses of tissue.
Experiments With Mice.
"a number of mice were inoculated
with cells from specimen of this
t,llnor already growing in a mouse of
the same species. About five weeks
later, during which the cancer had been
growing in the several mice inoculated,
two were taken for treatment by tryp-
sin, the results of such treatment be-
ing carefully compared with the pro-
esress of the tumor in the untreated
mice.
after ten days, during which four
injections had been made into each
mouse, one of them was found dead,
apparently due to it's having been
caught between its cage and it's food
vessel Microscopic examination of the
tumor showed that every one of its
cells was degenerate. Half OF them
were represented by shapeless masses
of particles, while the rest were mere
crumbling skeletons Of cells. All the
body tissues of this mouse were found
to be quite normal.
THE second mouse was killed twen-
ty-two days after the treatment had
begun, nine injections of trypsin hav-
ing been made. 1t was killed in order
to compare it with one Of the untreat-
ed mice, which then succumbed to Its
tumor.
Shows Striking Effect.
"The contrast was remarkable. In
the untreated mouse the tumor which
killed it had reached the size of the
last segment of a mans thumb. In tho
case of the 'trypsin mouse the tumor-
tho of the same size--was only as big
as a lentil, and on microscopic examina-
ton all it's cells were found to be dead.
The tumor was quite harmless, and.
even without further treatment would
probably have soon been completely
absorbed.
"How are we to conceive that tryp-