The San Francisco call., 1910-09-06
DOCTORS TOTEST
PERMANENCY Of
CANCER SERUM
City's Leading Physicians Will
Await Outcome of DR.. Gill
mans Operations
Convinced That Graduate of
Stanford Has Made Great
Medical Discovery

Cancer has been conquered, provided
that three cases now under observa
tion in this city by some of the best
known physicians of the city have the
same history that has marked so other
cases in Manila
According TO these San Francisco
medical men, DIR. p. X Gilman,
graduate of Stanford university and of
Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore
and chief surgeon of the government
hospital at Manila, has made the most
important surgical and archaeological
discovery of the twentieth century
With a patient at the ST. Francis hos
| hospital now under the treatment, DR..
Gilman will rest his case with the
local physicians, having already ar
ranged to leave for Johns Hopkins uni
versity week from Friday, where he
will place his treatment in the hands
of university psychologists, who will
trace the history of the cures and
endeavor to analyze the effect of the
new serum on the blood.
For, while the process is simplicity
itself and the result of more than nine
years of constant experimenting and
observation, the exact process of met
abolism which the blood cells go
through to effect the change is not yet
definitely ascertained. That cancer is
cured by Doctor Gilman's discovery is
admitted. The permanency of the cure
is yet to be demonstrated to the world
from the two San Francisco hospitals.
Process Very Simple
The discovery given to the world by
Doctor Gilman is one OF the simplest
surgical processes known and indicates
that every person suffering from can
Ger has cure in the very cancerous
condition itself. Yesterday morning, in
the presence of the staff of the St.
Francis hospital. a case was treated
under the direction OF Doctor Gilman.
There were present Drs John GaIlwey,
John Graves, Philip King Brown, Henry
Gibbons Jr., W. B. Coffey, b. f. Alden.
Frank T. Fitzgibbon and Grace Lin
forth
The vaccine was taken directly from
the cancerous growth of the patient
and submitted to the Gilman treatment
pathological and microscopic exam
ination having been made, the vaccine.
under the most asceptic precautionary
conditions, is mascerated into a salt
solution. After this is finished a weak
carbolic solution is added to the mas
cerated mass and an injection of 10
grams prepared. This is injected di-
rectly into the blood vessels of the
patient. Three treatments of this
nature at intervals of two weeks are
in most cases sufficient. Summed UP.
the operation is purely and simply in
jecting into the blood of a cancer pa
tient vaccine from the very cancerous
growth with which he suffers. The
serum thus injected requires three days
for reaction. The temperature Of the
patient increases during that time until
1t reaches 104.
Physicians Will Testify
After the three days the action be-
comes localized in the vicinity of the
cancer and the tissues begin to heal
suppuration stopping and a healthy
condition becoming apparent. In the
best tests made by Doctor Gilman in
Manila. and which are now under OBJ
servation, the healed condition has
continued for 20 months without any
sign of new cancerous formation So
that there may be no dispute in the
matter of case history, he has made
his local operations under the OBJ
servation of San Francisco physicians
who will ultimately be called upon to
testify to the merit of the cure
So fast has his fame travelled t1at
hourly Doctor Gilman's mail has been
flied with requests that he treat cases
and he is daily besieged with kilograms
imploring his aid. Yesterday he ad-
dressed the students of the University
of California medical classes at the
Affiliated colleges, on the treatment of
cancer.
DisCoVerer Gains Fame
DR.. w. B. Coffey, who has been pres
ent at two of the Gilman operations
declares that II the cases develop what
Gilman promises, he will rank with
Pasteur. DR.. S. K Ainsworth, surgeon
in chief at the Southern Pacific hos
pital, where Gilman performed his first
operation in this city. expresses faith
in the process but reserves an opinion
until the time for the reaction of the
patient has arrived and observation of
a particular condition can be had Doc
tor Gilman himself is not inclined to
discuss his work further than to ex-
plain the process and it's history.
The laurels of the discovery will go
to bacteriology, rather than to surgery
or medicine. 1t has been an old ex
pertinent to pass, by injection, viru-
lent organism taken from one animal.
through another, and then to test the
first animal with the vaccine from the
second. 1t was long ago demonstrates
that the original organism lost its viru-
lence, and in the case of anthrax bac-