Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-10-13
Chicago Surgeon Declares Rene
dies Have Brought Results in
Certain Instances.


ested IN what the leading medical
science Of the country IS iping to-
ward combating the terrible scoErge
0f cancer. we print the following re-
port ir, m the Milwaukee Free Press,
issue of Oct. 81.
no specific medicine or poison for
cancer is known" said Dr. John B.
Murphy of Chicago at the Public mus
cum meeting of the Wisconsin State
Medical society last night.
THE cancer cell has great tenacity
of life. 1t is as difficult, or more diff
ficuIt, to kill a cancer cell by any
type of poison known to us; as to kill
a normal cell which surrounds it. 1t
can therefore be readily seen that any
medicament sent through the blood to
kill the cancer cell is Intellectual, UNI
less it kills the patients other cells
or kills the patient in his entirety
This is a difficult proposition for the
layman to appreciate and that is why
the people patronize so many fostered
nOstrums that are Supposed to have
or claimed to have specific destruc-
tive effect on the cancer cell.
First Public Session.
Dr. Murphy spoke with DR.. Joseph
l. BlOodgood of John Hopkins uni
versity at the first public meeting
ever held by the Wisconsin society,
meeting packed to the door both by
physicians and the general public.
Cancer is a malignant tumor, made
UP chiefly of epithelial cells, a tumor
or growth in which there is a massing
oh, Don't
that they shut off the blood supply
to themselves and to the tissues in
which they are situated, and the tu-
NOR finally ulcerates or breaks down
by starvation or by the intoxicatiOn
of killing power of its own excessive
growth" he said.
Resembles Natural Cell.
1.-The cancer cell so closely resem-
bIes the natural cell that it cannot
be differentiated individually from the
normal cell, even with the microscope.
1.-The difference between the cancer
cell and the normal celr is that the
cancer cell penetrates into and APP
pears in tissues which are its normal
habitat or place of growth.
1.-The cancer cell tends to multiply
rapid growth to destroy the neighbor-
ing normal structures.
THE cancer cell may escape from
its primary position and be carried
through the lymph-stream or blood
stream to other positions in the body,
and wherever it is carried to, it starts
i'm the new position its same prolific
gr, With and produces the same kind of
destruction.
Cancer Seeds Spread.
cit does not grow by roots to differ
ent places as was formerly believed,
but by the transmission of cells, which
are the cancer seeds. These cells al
ways reproduce in every position in
which they stop the same type of cell
as the original.
The cancer cell starts to grow from
a normal cell. In other words, it is
normal cell that goes on a rampage
of destruction by producing toxin or
poison which circulates through and
impairs all of the tissues of the body
in which it is located. 1t is therefore
a superlatively prolific and viciously
destructive cell ON its face, bat wick
edIy malignant in intent and effect. 1t
is an outlaw cell, and like outlaws,
In the social sense, it has greater ten
acity of life, is more difficult to entrap
and operates on a wider range, and in
each new field to which it is transport
ed, it starts the same vicious outlaw
career.
Is Local Disease.
Cancer is always primarily local
nd re mil w
act by breaking through its neighbours
fence and commencing to grow on its
neighbOr's lot. Having committed its
first apparently insignificant crime by
breaking out of its normal environ
nient it starts on its career of multi
pIicatiOn and destruction.
1T acts very much like the single
fly admitted into the stable. In a few
Gays there are a thousand; in few
weeks there ere millions.
1.-THE cancer is originally a micro
scOpic local disease, and as such is eX-
terminated with the greatest ease by
mechanical means or by chemical de-
structive agents, such as incisiOn OPP
erations and actual cautery. 1t is not
a blood disease.
Arrests In Bone.
1T finally breaks itself into lymph
space or a blood vessel and is then
carried by the blood stream to some
distal portion of the body The bone
is one of the favored points of arrest.
True cancer cells never stop and grow
in a joint. True cancer of the bone
is always secondary to primary cancer
in some other portion of the body. In
other words there are no epitheliaI
cells in the bone normally. and no
cells therefore that can be converted
into cancer cells.
"Sarcoma is an excessive, parasitic
growth of mesoblastic cells. What
do / mean by mesoblastic cells? The