The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-30
On Dr. Wm. T. Bull, Noted New York Surgeon With Some Success.
-Aneged Specific is Prepara- ation, of Thyroid Gland Which in the Sheep is call ed "Sweetbread''- First Tumor Seemed Cured, but was Followed by a Second and Worse Form of the Disease.

New York, Jan. 30-It was learned Thursday that pr. William T. Bull, the noted surgeon, is suffering from cancer for the second, not the first time. as was generally supposed; that in both instances the disease yielded to a thyroid antitoxin prepared by scientists at Cornell University Labor atOry, and that once the doctors ad- ministered so much of the remedy that thyroidismt developed, necessitating a temporary Cessation of the treatment.
 Drs Delafield, Blake and Potter, who are attending Dr. Bull. and Prof. James Ewing, who with Dr. s. F. Beebe has been preparing the thyroid antitoxin, have employed every means to keep the treatment a secret, because 1t is yet in an experimental stage. They feared that should the matter become public false hopes would be raised among those affected with cancer, and that great harm would be done.
 The disease first appeared about year ago in the form of a sore on the gum. This was probably epithelioma, a intlds form of cancer, which does not spread through the glands to other dangerous. If taken in the early 4tagee 1t may be cured by the X-ray or even by common caustic. Dr. Bull chose ssto administer thyroid extract, an antitoxin of which little was known to the average practitioner, but of which wonderful reports had been re-
 This a4atitoxin is the extract of the thyroid gland, which when enlarged in the human being causes goitre. or swelling of the neck where the gland is situated. , In the calf the thyroid is the sweetbread and is considered a table luxury. Tn the sheep it is the same, Some time ago scientists dis covered that the gland. itself subject tive powers and that 1t destroyed cer tain germs under certain conditions. One of these organisms was the cancer micrObe.
 The extract prepared at the Cornell Laboratory and administered to pr. Bull accomplished remarkable results. Eventually the growth entirely disap- peared. pr. Bull considered that he was permanently cured. ! The second cancer developed not long. after this and was diagnosed as metastasis, one form of which is sar- coma, the most dreaded phase of the disease. In metastasis the germs travel through the glands to various parts of the hody. where other cancers appear. The instant the symptoms be- came manifest Dr. Bull returned to the thyroid treatment and took enor nous doses of the extract. The effect for a time was magical. The cancer begun to disappear and the surgeon had great hopes that the disease in it's second form would respond as readily as 1t did in its first.
 When the surgeon left off the anti toxin treatment the cancer immediate ly gained ground and Dr. Bull called his New York associates in consulta- tion. They declared that the Boston doctors were all wrong and that the thyroid antitoxin had nothing to do with the appearance of rheumatism. Dr. Bull thereupon returned to the treatment. but now and then he sus- pended it.
 Prof. Ewing, who has charge of the Cornell Laboratories at Twenty eighth street and First avenue, said:
 One of several methods now being tested experimentally for the treatment of cancer has been used in Dr. Bulls case. As to the results attained I am unable to offer any opinion