The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-02
ANGLE WORM IS NOT
 CARRIER OF CANCER
Disease Has Been Traced to Microscopic Worm That Inhabits Earth, Accord ing to Dr. H. R. Gaylord, of Buffalo.

Buffalo, Nov 2. - Reports from. New York that a German scientist in the University of Berlin has traced the definite origin of cancer to the angle worm was branded as terribly garbled" when an International News Service representative asked pr. H. R. Gaylord, of the State Institute of the Study of Malignant Diseases, about it.
 A dozen years ago scientists in the Chadwick laboratories in High street. which is the State Institute for experi- mental work in cancer study, started work on the worm theory and soon ex- ploded the angle work idea as a car rier of the germ of malignant disease. Dr. Gaylord said.
 Dr. Frank Kopsch, of Berlin Uni versity, was given as authority in New York reports for statements about the common fishing worm being the distributor of exact symptoms of tumor and cancer.
 When Dr. Gaylord was asked to read the report he commented: Ter ribly garbled. because know that Dr. Kopsch does not believe the angle worm has anything to do with it"
 Then Dr. Gaylord took from the library of the State institute a volume published by pr. Kopsch in 1919 in which the Berlin physicians eXperi- ments with frogs and cancer were de- scribed. The book told of a micro scopic form of animal life similar in shape but thousands of times smaller than the angle worm and not visible to the naked eye.
 '.I returned from Europe in August and I heard nothing there of any re- cent discoveries by Dr. Kopsch. I would have heard of it if any had been made" continued Dr. Gaylord. "I 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.
 The book was signed by Prof. Dr. KnnCPh printed in German. but, as pr. Gay lord said, did not refer to angle worms. It had pictures of growtths developed in frogs from injecting, described by Dr. Gaylord.
 Found Cancer Worm in 1910
 ''The type of animal cancer worm dates back to studies made here in the State institute about 1910. when we first discovered a microscopic worm which inhabies the earth and which we first thought to be harm less, but later determined does carry growths." pr. Gaylord explained. "Dr. kopsch has forged one more link in the study of that type of can cer and has established that the mil croscopic worm positively acts as carrier of cancer. We worked 1t out here back in 1919, It was about 1912 that class of worm and cancer of the thyroid, In trout.
 eve are studying that subject now in Springville, where we are breeding mice with the microscopic worm which we first thought was harmless but since have learned 1t Is not as harmless as we believed"
 When Dr. Gaylord was asked If he remembered a Buffalo physician who advanced an angle worm theory a dozen years ago as the cause of gapes in chickens and also cancer, he re- piled that such a report had been made by a doctor who has since dted. but the theory was blasted through experiments at the time the micro scopio worm was discovered in the Gratwick laboratory.
 The New York report of Dr., Kopsch's experiments told of taking 50 frogs and feeding house files. let tuce lice and angle worms to them until they showed exact symptoms of tunor and then, through a. process of elimination of foods, discovered that angle worms developed the cancer,
 That report amused Dr, Gaylord. for her said pr, koysch's experiments had corroborated the work in the Gratwick laboratory of a dozen years ago, when the microscopic worm, but not the angle worm, had been work ed with,