The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-24
CANCER CURED
 BY VACCINE Case of Boy Treated at Buff falo Laboratory Holds At c tention of Medical
 World. Said to Be the First One Without Resort to Surgi- cal Help-C Census Bu-
 reau Figures.
Lope That the ''Vaccine'' Treatment M ay Save Mankind From It's Most Dreaded and Mysterious Enemy.

The production by the New York state cancer laboratory of case of that disease cured by vaccine treat ment is by far the most important event in the medical annals of the Twentieth century. It holds out a Substantial hope that means will be found for staying the progress of this dreaded enemy of mankind. which is advancing by such leaps and bounds as to threaten actually to wipe out the human race.
 That this is no exaggerated state ment may be seen by glance at the figures of the government census bu- reau, which show that whereas, in 1850, nine out of every 1000 deaths in this country were from cancer the scourge at the present time claims forty-f1ve victims out of every 1000 who die. In other words the cancer death rate in the United States has, in the last sixty years, been multiplied by f1vel But this represents the av- craze merely for the entire union In some sections the increase has been much more rapid. For example, in San Francisco, approximately to pop ulation. ten people now die of cancer for every one that was stricken by the malady in 1850.
 Now, about the case of Buffalo. The patient was boy, and the cancer was on the neck. His parents refused to permit it's removal with the knife, and so resort was had to injections of vaccine" the result being that the tumor entirely disappeared.
 The vaccine" in question was pre- pared by taking some cancer tissue from another person-that is to say, the actual material of malignant growth of the kind-grindinga it fine, pounding it in mortar until not. a. single cancer cell was left whole, and finally reducing it to the requisite degree of fuidity by mixing it with salt and water. In this form, as an emulsion it was injected beneath the boys skin.
 The theory on which the process was based is the same as that inyolv- ed in the new and remarkably suc- cessful method of dealing with typhoid fever cholera and certain other dis eases by vaccination. Work of this kind is now being conducted on quite d large scale by Major F. F. Russell and a corps of experts at the army medical headquarters in Washington. Great quantities of typhoid vaccine" are made there, and put up in little glass bottles, each containing one dose, for distribution.
 Such a vaccine ordinarily is man. ufactured by introducing a pure cul- ture of the germs of the diseased whatever it may be) into beef soup, upon which they feed, and in which they multiply at such a rate that soon the fluid contains thousands of mill lions of them for every teaspoonful. They are then killed by raising the soup to boiling temperature, and prep aration thus obtained, still carrying the dead bodies of the, microbes, is the vaccine" Typhoid vaccine made in this way and given by hypodermic injection. renders a person immune to that malady.
 Where cancer is concerned, there has been serious difficulty in the way of preparing a vaccine" because there was no microbe to be artificially bred. The germ of cancer is un- known. Thus it came about that Dr. Harvey Gaylord, in charge of the state laboratory at Buffalo, was obliged to fall back upon the expedient of mak-