The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-01-26
TO treat CANCER
BY TRANSMISSION
Science on Eve Of Great Dis
coyery, Says Or. Ewing
new BLOOD TO ExPEL GERMS.
Experiments on Dogs Made at Cornell
Medical College Lead Expert on
Pathology to Believe That Human
Victims of Seourse Can Be Benefited.

Victims of Seourse Can Be Benefited.
Experiments recently made on ami
mails has convinced DIR. James Ewing.
head pathologist Of Cornell Medical
college and president of the American
Society For Cancer Research, that SCI
ence is on the eve of discovering a
curt for cancer in the human body.
such forecast recently made by DIR.
Ewing is especially cheering in view
of the recent assertion of DIR. Harvey
r. Gaylord, chief of the State Cancer
hospital at Buffalo, who said:
''The increase of cancer In the state
Of New York Is little short of appall-
ing. 1t now takes half as many lives
as tuberculosis"
In speaking of the laboratory study
of cancer at the Cornell Medical col
lege DR. Ewing said:
MANY tests were made upon dogs,
with the result that animals which
had been suffering with malignant can
Ger were :aas:.:sc!; i;:aass::..:.sc!; cured The method
pursued was to bleed dog afflicted
with the disease until it was nearly
lifeless, then connect its veins with a
healthy animal and fill them with new
blood Some Of the animals treated
have been watched for over year
after the operation. but none showed
any recrudescence Of the disease.
Tests Confined to Animals.
whether or not man could be cured
Of cancer by blood TRANSMISSION is, of
course, matter of conjecture. This
test has never been applied to any hu-
man being. Furthermore, the expert
fnent brings the patient so near death
that for ethical reasons no physician
would care to advise this sort of treat
ment for human patient. Yet see
no particular reason why man suffer
ing from cancer should not be bene-
fited by the re-establishment of new
blood supply as is dog.
81 am prompted to speak freely be-
cause Of the fact that in spite Of the
enormous progress science has made In
the study of cancer the cry has been
raised that vivisection or animal ex-
perimentation should stop. If these
people who oppose us would them
selves stop to learn how much good
has already been accomplished for the
human race as the result of the work
they decry they would cease trying to
oppose us.
End of Problem May Be In Sight.
"Although it may be unsafe to make
| any predictions, 1t Is certainly legiti-
| mate to claim that the therapeutic prin-
ciples established by experiments on
lower animals will prove applicable in
| some form to man for cancer as for
diphtheria. We may therefore assert
that the end of the cancer problem is
In sight
"By pursuing the principles discover
ed In the laboratory We may confident
| ly hope to prevent the occurrence of
some cancers. to bring others to a
standstill and greatly to reduce the in
cidents and mortality Of the disease.
| I'm the study Of cancer. more than
any other disease, 1t has been proved
| that the investigator should be permit
ted absolute freedom In animal expert
mentation. For more than century
all efforts to transplant tumors from
lone animal to another proved fruitless.
tThen at last 1t was accomplished and
new experiments made possible to test
or try fer Il cure.
1T later was proved that In animals
into which r,incerous growths were
transplan,ca Il SELF agent manicssted