Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-15
TIP FROM A WISE DOCTOR
Possible source of Dread Disease In
dictated by q Noted
Gurneon.

DR.. w. 3. Clarke of New York City will
not yield his opinions on cancer. No ply
stefan has yet told us the cause of cancer,
and none can point out its cure; therefore
DR.. Clarke,s theories. may be as good as
anybody's. The case Of DR.. Bull interests
the world, and is a puzzle to all scientists.
The fear of cancer is almost as depressing
as. that of consumption. 1t haunt the
mind. keeping millions in a state of fright
full suspense.
Says DR.. Clarke: "The malignancy and
unvarying fatality Of cancer and the In
dian-like or long-continued torture Of its
victims characteristic of this terrible dis
ease justify the popular horror of its very
name, and its appalling frequency and
rapid increase of late years may well chal-
lenge the closest attention of the medical
prcft ssion. It's victim. like Prometheus
bound, sees the hungry vultures plucking
at his vitals, but has no hope Of a medical
Hercules coming to his rescue.
Cancer steadily pursues its relentless
march, staying it's thousands and tens of
thousands, staying the Grants and Glad
stones of the world, or the most eminent
physicians and surgeons. with as little len
iency as II displays toward their humblest
and most helpless followers. In the state
Of New York 600 adults died Of cancer in
1907. In other words. to bring the Subject
intimately close, in ar ordinary mans life
time about 10000 people will succumb to
the disease in this state.
LAS cancer was practically unknown until
cowpox vaccination began to be intro
duced, it is certainly about time to study
out the possible connection between the
two. Cancer, i believe. is a disease of
cell life, a disturbance of it's equilibrium,
manifested by the rapid growth of cells
and the consequent building up of a tumor.
/ have had to do with at least 900 cases
of cancer, and here declare that l never
saw a case of cancer in an unvaccinated
person. This of itself may not mean any
thing. but I ask all physicians to pursue
their inquiries along this line and see what
will result.
The way vaccination causes cancer is
like this: It takes twenty-one years TO
make a man and but four to make a COW,
the former being of slow cell growth and
the latter rapid. To put the rapid-growing
cells, or protopiasm, OF a diseased animal
lin a condition Of virulent infectious ac-
tivityp into the slow-growing cells of man
as is done In vaccination and the various
forms of blood assassinations now rife in
civilized countries (often enforced by
law. health departments or boards OF
education)-ls to disturb the equilibrium of
cell life and create that disparity, disar-
rangement and Reorganization which, when
the season for cancer comes late in life,
results In cancer. II not tuberculosis earlier.
''This conclusion adds DR.. Clark, is
both logical and in accord with the most
profound discoveries Of modern biology
and pathology, from the cellular pathology
Of the great Virchow to the recent dis
covery of DR.. Roswell Park in the state
paid work at the University of Buffalo, that
the cancer organisms can be detected in
the blood. and conform closely in APP
pearance TO the bodies found in the blood
after neutrality-suspicious. the previous
claims OF Funck and Gorrlni abroad
New York Press.