The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-06-16
NEW CANCER CURE
Possibilities Of Direct TRANSMISSION Of
Blood.

Possibilities Of Direct TRANSMISSION Of
Blood
Physicians in general, and especial
" those practicng in this country,
are paying a great deal OF attention
at present to the therapeutic posi-
bilities OF the direct TRANSMISSION of
blood
TRANSMISSION carried out in one way
and another has been in use here and
there for years, but it Is only within
a comparatively short period that the
profession has arrived at a definite
conclusion as to the class of cases in
which it exercises a positive beneh-
cial effect, and those in which it is
of no value.
1t is likely that the former class
will receive rapid additions in the
near future as the field os experiment
tation grows. 1t is notable, however,
that current issues Of authoritative
medical periodicals print articles on
the subject, each containing new and
valuable information.
Dr. John A. Hartwell, Professor of
Clinical Surgery at the Cornell Medi-
cal College, has an article in The
Medical Record, telling, among other
! things, of its possibilities in cancer,
while The American Journal of Sur
| gerry quotes from The Southern Med
ica Journal the report of DR.. w. p.
! Cole and Dr. Gilman r. Winthrop,
who have cured pellagra which has
become a scourge in the South, by
means of TRANSMISSION.
DR.. Hartwell refers to the fact that
medical literature contains fifteen
cases of the spontaneous cure of can
Ger, tells of some experiments with
mice, rats, and dogs, and continuing,
says:
while these experimental findings
are contradictory and to some extent
inexplicable, they demonstrate two
facts. First, that a susceptible ami
NAL may be rendered immune to ma
lignant growths, after which its body
fluids contain something that inhibits
malignant growth, IN other animals
Of the same species; and, second, that
this immunity differs from that ex
listing toward infections and Is prob
ably due to the development of al
unfavorable soil for the growth.
Application Of these facts to the
problem of human cancer is yer!
tempting, and in TRANSMISSION tn,
method of their application ma!
: exist.
"Hodenpyl's recent experiences il
bringing about a cure of cancer b.
the injection of the peritoneal exudat
: from a person spontaneously recover
ing from cancer Is the first practica
| step in this direction. Spontaneou
= cures of cancer in the human subiec
are so rare, and the concident facto
I of obtaining q body fluid from such
person without detriment to himsel
I is so much rarer that the advantage
+ TO be gained from this precise metho
must OF necessity be very limited.
t The fact, however Is clinically el
@ tablished that cancer can be eradica
e ed from the human subject by the al
I Of some material produced In anothe
4 human subject recovering from car
= Ger. Applying to this fact the result
e obtained by GAYLORD and Cloves an
g Beebe and Grille, we may Justly hor
. that patients so cured will have
+ their blood elements which will r
i tard their growth In a third patient.
i Furthermore, every surgeon ca
/ recall cancer cases In which he hl
y done what he considered an incor
D plete operation. and yet a permanel
u cure has resulted. Such patlei
g may have recovered by virtue OF h
v natural resistance, which only nee
4, ed to be relieved OF a part Of its bu
d den TO become effective. Such
IS patient may, therefore be an immur
IS and his blood may have curati,
;; value.
Is Gaylord has shown that a tuml
n which is regressing will take on ne
Is growth II its host is bled or otherwi
n depressed. Therefore we must
b certain that our cured donor Is cor
N pletely cured. otherwise his Gift
blood to another sufferer may resu
in a recurrence for himself"