Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
IOWA PHYSICIAN ANNOUNCES TO
MEDICAL MEN THAT HE HAS
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
FINDS DISEASE AFFLlcTs
EDUCATED AND REFINED
His Investigations Convince Him That
MaIady Does Not Attack People Of
the sIums Nor the Lower Animals
Has Found Cause and Will Apply
Cure.
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| Special to Times Republican.
| Des AIoines, Nov. 11.-Not only that
cancer is durable but that he is ready
| to disclose the method of treatment
was the statement last night of DR.. w.
A. Guild, OF this city, in a paper read
before the Des Moines Medical Soci-
ETY.. All the greatest scientists of the
world who work upon matter of dis
ease are now working on the propo-
sition of curing the cancer. Tubercu-
/ lcsis has been mastered so far as the
laboratory work is concerned and there
remains but the application of the pc!n-
ciples by the physicians. Five of the
greatest laboratories for research of
this kind including that endowed by
Rockefeller are working upon the prop
ositlon.
Pasteur who came to America to
conduct Investigations and some 9TH
ers with him, during the last few
months have declared that theoretical
~ the disease is durable but they have
/ not worked out the methods. DR.. Guild
and others working with him had done
this he has cured several and before the
medical society last night disclosed the
methods of treating the disease.
Ii Is disclosed thru the Investigations
/ of the best physicians and scientists of
the country that only the educated and
refined people are subject to cancer.
1t is unknown among the slums prac-
| tically. 1t Is entirely unknown among
1 the savages and not only this but fol-
lows the same lines in animals. F!du-
Il Gated and we'll bred dogs are subject
4 To cancer while the mongrel never has
it. White mice and white rats which
are subject to training have cancer
while the ordinary rats and mice never
are known to have it.
Guild Finds Cause.
DR.. Guild declares that it is a set
tied conviction with scientists that the
disease comes from misplaced UNI
bryonic cell. The developn ents Of
man is by division of cells. There is
first one cell which divides and each
becomes as large as the one original.
These divide into four and they each
become as large as the original and
the division continues. At certain
stage of the development one kind OF
cells make bone. another skin and an
other the other parts of the body. The
belief is that at some stage one of these
cells gets misplaced. A skin cell gets
lodged in the liver 1t remains inactive
in the savage and illiterate, because
after reaching maturity. the entire life
of the savage is stationary.
! In the refined and educated there is
a continual development due to am.
. bition continually squirting the individ
ual and this activity starts this mis-.
placed cell to growing. Skin cells ART
found growing in the lungs, stomach
liver, etc., and forming a cancer. Ski,
cells are found forming a cancer il
the liver and SO on.
, Pasteur found after long investiga.
! ton fourteen persons who had beer
cured of cancer beyond any doub
without treatment of any kind, thu
4 system having rallied sufficiently t.
absorb and throw off the cancer. H,
decided on that that theoretically i
could be cured by medicine or treat
q ment if treatment could be fount
: that would cause the system to thu
rally and throw off the cancer. Dr.
q Guilds treatment has been worked GU
along Pasteurs line of reasoning AM
= he has applied his method of treat
ment sufficiently that he believes i
will cure So per cent of the cases. I
is not a combination of medicines
however, that can be sold as a paten
medicine. 1t is rather a method O
treatment by the use of therapeuti
agencies within the reach of ever
doctor but he declares that the treat
ments must be varied to suit the in
divdual case.
. In both America and England amon
d the educated and refined people O
q women who die over the age of 3
D years, one out of every eight dies G
cancer. one of every seven does of tn
4 berculosis. so that cancer is nearly a
bad as tuberculosis Furthermore, tn
number of deaths by cancer has bee
4 steadily increasing.
Knife Seldom Cures.
There is this further fact, as dis
closed by DIR. Guild in his paper. thu
where surgery is resorted to there al
not more than per cent of cures Ell
fected. and these only of selected case
] Furthermore it has been found tn;
even the prick of sterile needle wi
excite a cancer to greater growth ar
1 more often than not the surgical ope,
alton has the same effect, SO that II
better class of doctors are no long
resorting to surgery and Dr. Gui
branded its further use in the light
known facts concerning cancer as I
less than criminal for unless every il
3 dividual cell of the cancer is remove
. in the operation, which is next to in
~ possible, the cells left will contin,
n the growth, in most cases, much mo
rapidly than before and the death
the patient is fastened.
Summing up Dr. Guild in his pap
says that cancer is not contagious b
is trans plantable, that it is hereditar
e that It IS believed that every pers'
~ has these misplaced cells that are