The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1910-02-04

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iesals ~ poea Mads e Cornell
sieal consss Lead EEp,rs 81
Paltoioay e. Rsilose That Hpmsn
Victims 81 eesurss Cen - RsnsGesa
Experiment. recently made On ami.
mas be- convinced ~. James Ewing,
head pathoIoEist o. Cor1en Medical
collseo ana president % the American
8eciety For Cancer Research. that sci-
euce a. ca the'oyo % discovering
curt Tor cancer 40 the human body.
such 3 forecast recently made By Dr.
Ewing g especially cheering BE- view
q the recent assertion Of Or. Harvey
B. Gaylord. chief Of the state Cancer
hospital az Buffalo, VINO aald;
'.rhs increase 81 cancer 81 the state
of New York q little short OF nppaii-
ing. Il now takes half as many lives
IS tuberculosis"
ia speaking Of the laboratory study
q cancer at the Cornell Medical col.
ia9a Or. Ewing said:
MANY tests were made upon dogs.
with the result that animals which
had been suffering with malignant can
Ger were positively cured. The method
pErsned was to bleed dog afflicted
with the disease until Il was nearly
iifaless, then connect tts veins with q
healthy animal and on them with new
bleed. Some Of the animals treated
have been watched for over q year
after the operation, but none showed
any rserudsscenco Of the disease.
Tests conanod e Animals.
WHISTLER o. not man could BE- cured
e cancer by blood traugfuzion n. 0f
eoESe. q matter 81 coaieebG5e This
test has nsger been applied TO any he-
man being Furthernore. the expert
ment brings tht patient 50 near death
Tat Tor ethical reasons no physician
would care 20 advise this sort Of treat.
mgnt Cor q human patient Yet I zee
10 patlculaf teaoon Why a man suffer
me IRON cancer should not b. bene-
attd 81 tbs re-esGabllshment 81 q nsw
blood supply ss e q DOC.
II ana prompted 10 speak freely be-
cause of the fact that b spite Of the
enormous progress science has made 10
ne study OF cancer the cry has been
raised that vivisection or animal ex-
perimentBtion should stop. IL these
people who oppose uB would them
selves stop 20 learn how much good
has already been accomplished for the
human race as the result Of the work
they decry they would cease trying 20
oppose %.
End o. Problem May BE IN Sight
Although Il may be unsafe 70 make
any predictions. Il 70 certainly leRitl'
mate 10 claim that the therapeutic prin-
ciples established BY experiments on
lower animals wiz prove applicable IN
some form TO man for cancer as for
diphtheria. We may therefore assert
that the end OF the cancer problem is
"a sight.
@BY pursuing the principles discover.
ca IN the laboratory we may confident
b hope 70 prevent the occurrence Of
some cancers. 90 bring others 10 a
staudstill and greatly 20 reduce the In
cldents and mortality Of the disease.
~ Tue NlAAy " ~AA|NAs AA'AN NAaA
any other disease, Il has been proved
that the Investigator should be permit
ted absolute freedom ~ animal expert
mentatl0u. For more than q century
en- efforts 10 transplant sum0rs from
one animal % another proved fruitless.
Then az last Il WAS accomplished and
new oxperiments made possible 70 test
o. ~ Cor a cure.
eIt later was proved that IN animals
into which cancerOus gr0wths were
traneplanted q self agent manifested
Itself whirh elected q spOnfaneous
cura. Thereafter these animals wers
f1umuno. Il was dogs thar had been
thus rendered proof against cancer
thar we're usod n furnishing the blood
for those nat wcro eured 81 ne az
ease"
Df. Ewing said mat b combating
ne dlaoass X was Of prime inportance
- 6SIss e e4rly. TIE uss q enc knife
ens sancisng oflontimes ~ lncipiant
eases - ward OF the disease. q nof
actually cure a.
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