Evening star., 1924-06-11
CANCER CURE FOUND,
DOCTORS ARE TOLD
Chemical Formula Declared Eff.
fective in 40 Per Cent of
800 Cases.
GLAND THEORY IS SECUTED
Jazz Age Is Blamed for Prevalence
of Goiter.
By the Associated Press.

by The AsSoclate ted Frec-
CHICAGO, June 11.-Announcement
that a new chemical formula had
cured 40 per cent out of 500 cases of
cancer was made today by Dr. c.
Everett Field of the Radium Insti-
tute Of New York before the Associa-
tion for the Study and Cure of Can
Ger, meeting with the American
Medical Association convention.
The formula, DIR. Field said, was
based on the theory that cancer is a
germ disease. The formula, he said.
had been worked out because the
X-ray and radium and other pre-
viously known forms of treatment
were Inadequate.
Cure Is Explained.
Taking the germ theory as basic,
DR.. Field said, the formula had been
evolved and then 800 cases of cancer
had been put under treatment.
Forty per cent of these cases were
definitely cured" he added, explaining
preparation which would Kill the
germs without destroying the body
tissues.
The new preparation is known as the
Koch serum, and was developed by DR..
William Koch of Detroit, formerly a
professor at the University of Detroit
DR.. Field made il plain that he was
not heraldlng an absolute cancer cure,
that II had been used only in clinica
cases, but that he regarded il with
high hope.
AT the same time, he said that the
Glover serum. the product of Toronto
physician, announced recently at Phil
adeiphia, should be watched carefully,
although he said the Koch serum had
resulted in from 40 to so per cent
cures in clinical cases, whereas only Is
per cent of cures had been claimed for
the Glover serum.
May Withhold Formula.
Although DR.. Koch had been drop
ped from membership in his county
medical association and by the Amer
idAn Medical Association, DR.. Field
said he had been instructed to in
vestigate DR.. Koch's work with an
unbiased attitude. He said he had
done 80 and had personally studied
thirty-two cases of what appea red
to him to be incurable cases. He
declared that in clinical cases sar-
coma had been cured by the Koch
serum, but that a cure of the serious
and malignant growth had not been
claimed for the Glover serum. The
Koch formula, DR.. Field said. had
not been published and perhaps would
not be published for months or years
Subjects ranging from rejuvenation
by gland transplanting and resuscita-
tion methods to the harm of face
powders. rouge and jazz were on the
program for today's sessions of the
various sections OF the medical asso-
The gland theory was called mythol-
ogy by DR.. Clarence A. McWilliams.
New York surgeon, in an address pre-
pared for delivery before the surgery
section. Rules for resuscitation after
electric shock were prepared by Wills
MacLachlan of the National Electric
Light Association, and Prof H N
Cole of Western Reserve University
deplored the increasing use of cos
metics. The convention yesterday
adopted a resolution urging legisIa-
tion against the use of harmful in
gradients in cosmetics.
Blanes jazz for Golfer.
This generation Of jazz was blamed
for the increase in the prevalency OF
goiter by DIR. G. w. Newell, who de-
clared half of the women and girls
of the middle west are afflicted.
I1lS IL pOWcTcO IuOlOT CATS, udHCeS,
theaters, cabarets, liquor. and the
other innumerable factors that play a
part in the regular life of many of
our urban adolescents today have set
such a hectic pace that the human
nervous system isn't equal to It," he
said TT results in complete fatigue,
which prevents the natural elimina-
tion of the toxins of the body, result
ing in goiter."
Cosmetics were described as instru-
ments toward skin ills and homeli-
ness, rather than auxiliaries of
beauty, by Prof. Cole.
Poison In Cosmetics.
Prof. Cole deplored the increasing
use of cosmetics, which he said were
always harmful to the complexion,
and revealed statistics showing their
consumption and data on the prev
alence of poisonous substances in
many common beautifying agents.
The girl of today is something
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