The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-10
RADICAL CURE
FOR CANCER IS
FOUND At LAST
AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF
MOSCOW UNIVERSITY CLAIMS
TO HAVE DISCOVERED A CURE
AND A CHEAP ONE.
Nv Associated Press.

| st. Petersburg, March "a radical
i cure for cancer is announced TO have
| been discovered by Assistant Profess
| sor Won Stein of Moscow University.
| The Cancer Institute of Moscow,
founded by the millionaire cotton
| manufacturer MoroZoff, has passed
| favorably upon 1t and has introduced
! it in its clinic.
| The chief of the institute, Assistant
| Professor Zykoff, read a paper before
! the surgical congress in Moscow this
year stating that cancer tumors al
| ways yield an alkaline reaction, where
| as sarcoma tumors yield an acid re-
| action. This idea set DIR. Won Stein
| thinking that the logical treatment for
| cancer would consist in the oxidation
of the stricken tissues, and for Sar-
/ coma in their alkalization.
| In going over the acids in search Of
/ one suitable for such a treatment, he
| settled upon a derivative of gallo acid,
namely pirogall, discovered in 1858 and
now used as a depletory medium in the
| treatment of all sorts Of skin diseases.
Pirogall is obtained from gallo acid
| by eliminating carbonic acid from 1t.
/ Piraloxin, the compound used, Is very
cheap-a quarter cent per gram-but
is produced in only two places in Eu-
| rope.
| DIR. Won Stein is somewhat annoyed
at the early publicity which has inju-
diciously been given to this cure, as
| his report had been intended strictly
| for scientific body in Moscow. Tests
| of the cure are as yet far from COM
plete. Such facts as may be constd-
| cred established are the following:
| The application of piraloxin causes
cancer tumors, especially in their
/ initial stages, to be quickly sucked up
| and in some cases to disappear with
out a trace. In other cases the tumors
become softened, the ulcers begin TO
| cicatrize and epidermis commences to
| form. A sharp Improvement Is re-
| marked In the patients feelings; those
| suffering from cancer in the throat,
| who are sometimes on the verge of
/ suffocation, not only begin to breathe
/ freely but their voices gradually come
| back to them, symptoms of metas-
/ taSis disappear, the characteristic can
cerous color of the skin commences
to become pink, so much has been
observed during the fortnight since
this treatment was introduced at the
| Morozoff clinic.
The adjustment Of the dose is now
being carefully studied in view Of some
poisonous properties of pirogall. Two
to four declines (decigrammes) are
given two or three times a day. Sub
cutaneous injections have shown
stronger action in experiments with
rabbits. The internal dose is so eff
fective however, that 1t Is sometimes
| IOllOW6O Dy leIupOtdIy SWELLING, q
dilation of the cancerous tissue with
blood, but this condition is a passing
one
1t is supposed that under the infiu-
ence of piraloxin the cancer tumor be-
comes enveloped in a coating of special
matter which cuts 1t off from nutri-
ton.
!, Piraloxin Is on trial upon cancer pa
tents also at the Ear, Nose and
Throat Hospital in Moscow. built
by Madamoiselle Bazanoff at a cost of
$325,000. Promising experiments are
also being made with it upon con-
SumptiVe patients. One feature which
is now being studied by the. discoverer
is to trace the course of the amines
which are liberated through the de-
oxidating action OF the remedy.
The effect of pniroloxin on other in
fiammatory processes is also marked
A simple smearing of the nostrtls
quickly drives out a cold in the head.
Professor Won Stein is known abroad
for his discovery of certain new opti-
cal and other functions of the cochlea.
A Big Increase.
An increase of thirty-four million
} dollars, or $50 per cent, is shown in
the budgets of the ministery of edu-
cation for five years since 1907 The
outlay for elementary instruction has
been quintupled during that time; on
middle education rs per cent more is
per cent more. The budget for 1912
amounts to s57, 800 900. A duma re-
port furnishes the results of one
day school census of, Russia (exclud-
ing Ffnland) In 1911. 100,295 elemen-
tary schools were attended on the day
the census was taken by 6,1S0,51o
scholars, 154,177 teachers and 49,096
priests teaching Bible lessons. In g.,
345 city and ministerial high schools
were 100000 students and $4,000 teach
ers. In 80 institutions of university
rank were 1889 students and 1924
instructors.
Confiscate Newspapers.
In the course of six years of revolu-
tionary ferment and its aftermath,
from December Z, 1906, to October IA,
1911, the Russian authorities have con-
fiscated issues of newspapers and peri,
odicals in 1855 cities according to
booklet now issued by the Bureau of
Press Affairs at the ministry of the
interior. In 2S3 cases the issues con-
hscated were totally destroyed and In
II cases certain pages or articles were
removed by order of the court. These
| figures refer only to confiscations
which were subsequently approved by
the courts, or were actually ordered by
| the district attorneys. 557 different
publications were subjected to confis-'
cation of certain of their issues; of
them 404 in the Russian language.
| They occurred in 40 cities. ST Peters
burg leads with 521 issues, Moscow,
102.
Confirmed.