The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-06
Invisible EarthWOrm
Found to Garry Germ
That Develops Cancer

BUFFALO, Nov Reports from
New york that German scientist
in the UnNcrsity of Hcrlin has
traced the definite origin ot can
Ger To tho augicWurm was branded
ug "tcrrihly Earhlod' whom an In
tcrnatuubl News Service repre-
sentative asked pr. n. n. Gaylord OF
the state Institute for tho study OF
malignant Diseases about 10
a dozen years ago scioutlgtH iu
the GHtwict lahuruturicg iu nigh
street which BE- tho state institute
for experimental work iu cancer
study started work 9n the worm
theory and soon exploded the angle
worm idea aA u carrier of the germ
OF malignant disease. Dr, Gaylor
said
Dr. Frank Kopsch Of Berlin unit
Vcrsity, was given as authority In
New York reports Tor statcmonta
about the common fishing worm
being the distributor Of exact symp.
toms Of tumOT and cancer.
when Doctor Gaylord was asked
To read the report no commented; /;
Terribly Earblod, because %uow
that Doctor kopsch docs not believe
the augleworm has anything to do
with H." Then Doctor took from the
library OF the state institute "A vol
umo published by Doctor kopHch In
1919 IN which the Berlin physi-
clans experiments with frogs and
cancer were described. The book
told Of microscopic form OF ami
mai life similar I'm shnpo hut thou
sands of times smaller than the
angloworm and not visible TO the
naked eve.
II returned from Europe in Aug
uHt and heard nothing there ot
any recent discoveries by Doctor
Kopsch would have heard Of II
II any had boon made" continued
Doctor Gaylord. u know all about
HIS experiments with worms and
frogs because they were told IN this
book Of his work published some
time after the war"
Tho book was signed by prof.
DR.. Fr. Kopsch, Leipzig, 1919" and
was printed In German, but, ns Doc
tor Gaylord said, did not refer to
angleworms It had pictures OF
growths developed In frogs from In
jecting, through food. tho micro
EcOpiC worm described by Doctor
/ Gaylord
Found Canccr Worm In 1910.
"Tke type OF animal cancer worn
! datsH back To studice made here IL
! the state Institute about 1910, wheT
| we first discovered n microscopic
worm which inhablts the earth and
/ which we first thought TO bo harm
less but later determined does carry
n germ bordering on cnncorout
growths" Doctor Gaylord eN'
planned.
Doctor Kopach has forged one
more linz In the study Of that type
of cancer and has established that
the microscopic worm positively
acts as carrier ot cancer. We
worked Il out hero back In 1919. II
was about 1919 that We showed n
connection through that class Of
worm and cancer OF the thyroid, In
front.
"Wo are studying that subieqI
now In Springfield, where we are
breeding mice with the microscopic
worm which we first thought was
harm less but since have learned ~
~ not ns harmless az we believed, V
when Doctor Gaylord was asked
N he remembered "a Buffalo phyAi-
clan who advanced an angleWorm
theory dozen years ago aH the
cause of Bapes IN chickens and
MISC cancer, hr replied that ruch q
report had been made ny n DOCTOR
who has since died, but that the
theory WAS blasted through expert
monts at the time the hicroscopio
worm was discovered In the Grat'
wick laboratory.
The New York report OF Doctor
Kopsch's experiments told OF TAX.
ing so frogs and feeding house files.
lettuce lice and hnelcworms "a
them until they showed exact Hynp
toms Of tumOr and then, through q
process Of elimination OF foods. dis.
covered that nngleworms developed
the cancer.
That report amused Doctor Gay
lord, for he said Dr KOpsch's ex'
pCrimcnts had currobOrnted the