The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-15
TRIED ON ANIMALS
AAD CJHE is EFFECTED.
End Of Great Problem 10
Medical Fraternity Pfob2-
!. bly, in Sight


Ewing, head pathologist Of Cornol
Medical college and president OF the
American society for cancer research,
stated yesterday that experiments up
on animals convinced him that sci
ence was on the eve of discovering a
cure for cancer in the human body,
such a forecast is especially cheerful
in view of the recent assertion Of Dr..
Harvey X. Gaylord, chief Of the state
.aRcer hospital at Buffalo, who said:
The Inc. case OF cancer in the state
of New York Is appalling, It now
akcs half as many lives as tubcrcu-
losis.'
In speaking of the laboratory study
of cancer at the Cornell Medical col
lcge, Mr.. Ewing said.
Many tests, were made upon dogs
with the result that animals whica
has been suffering with malignant
cancer were positively cured The
method pursued was TO bleed dog
afflicted with the disease until 1t was
nearly lifeless, then connect its veins
With healthy animal, and fill them
with new blood. Some OF the animlls
treated have been watched for over
a year after the operation, but none
showed any recrudescence of the dis.
ease.
Tests Confined To Animals
Whether o. not man could be cur
ed of cancer by blood TRANSMISSION is,
OF course. matter of conjecture.
This test has never been applied to
any human being. Furthermore, the
experiment brings the patient so near
death, that for ethical reasons no ply
slcian would care to advise this sort
OF treatment for human patient.
Yet, see no particular reason why
a man suffering from cancer should
not be benefited by the re-establsh.
ment of new blood supply, as is a
dog.
Il 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
Leen raised that vivisection or animal
experimentation should stop. II these
people who oppose us would them.
selves stop to lealn how much good
has already been accomplished for the
human race as the result of the work
they decry they would cease trying
70 oppose us.
End OF Problem In Sioht
Although 1t may be unsafe to make
any predictions. 1t is certainly legti
mate to claim that the therapeutic
principles established by experiments
on lower animals will prove applica
BILE in some form to man for cancer
as for diptbeta. We may, therefore
assert that the end OF the canoe.
problem is in sight
BY pursuing the principles discoy
cred in the laboratory we may con
fidently hope to prevent the occur
renee OF some cancers, TO bring Others
to standstill and greatly to reduce
the incidence and mortality OF the dis
ease.
In the study of cancer. more thar
any other disease, il has been provet
| that the investigator should be per
mitted absolute freedom in animal ex
| perimentation. For more than a cen
lury all efforts to transplant tumori
from one animal 10 another provel
fruitless, and new experiments mad,
possible to test or try for a cure.
1T later was proved that in animal
into which cancerous growths wer'
transported self agent maniiesteI
Itself which effected a spontaneous
cure Thereafter, these animals wer'
immune. It was dogs that had beel
thus rendered proof against canoe
that were used in furnishing the bloo-
fo- those that we're cured of the dis
/ east.
Quick Action Necessary
DR. Ewing said that in combatinj
the disease II was of prime import
ence to seize II early. The use o
the knife was sufficient oftentimes Il
| inclpient cases to ward off the dis
ease, If not actually cure It.
The ravages Of cancer. DR.. Ewin
added. would doubtless be greatly d
! minlshed If the public knew NOR
about its symptoms, and treatment
People world thus be able to detec
the approach Of the disease in then
selves and prevent its growth throug
its neglect. For this reason the Anne
lean Medical association is arrangin
for a course Of public lectures at tn
Academy OF Medicine this wlnte
where the public may learn all thu
science has thus far discovered COZ
cerning this most fearful scourge.