New Britain herald., 1926-04-27
PRODUCES CANCER
 IN EXPERIMENTS
Paris Professor Aids in Study
 Of Disease

Paris, April 27 tP - That cam ccr is caused by an abnormal form of mildow is the claim set up in n paper written by Professor J.. Tissot, of the Paris natural history museum, and read before the Academy of Science last night.
 Mildcw. pr, Tissot declares. Is the original cell from which all life on earth developed, and all animal and vegetable organisms are nothing but highly developed organized mildew,
 Proceeding along lines based on this, Dr. Tissot says he succeeded in taking healthy human tissue, changing its form and transform- ing it so that cultures developed canccrous clements, and these elc- mcnts conld be reproduced as easily as cultures of microbes,
 Tho cultures so obtained also contained bacterial clements, which, together with tho other ele- mGnts, formed what Dr. Tissot de- scribes as the "canccr virus" and is akin 10 the virus of tubcrculo- sis.
 He claims that he found he could easily transfer bacterial cul- lures into mildew. Having treated in this manner cultures Of typhoid, cholera, diphtheria, plague. tuber- culosis. Malta fever and tctanus, and having at the same time iso- lated and photographed inc basic mildew of numerous animal and vegetable organisms, he found that the mildew which caused typhoid was identical with that of the mildew Of maize; Malta fever that of the orange; diphtheria that of barley and cholera that Of poison ous mushrooms.
 This led him to study numerous diseases. the cause of which is un- known 10 science, and he claims that he has been able to ascertain the cause by isolation. Thus he found that the virus of measles is identified with the organic mildew of lettuce; that Of Scarletina and rabies with the mildew Of the car- rot: the virus of orupuve typhus with that of oats; the virus of vac cine and smallpox that of the DO. tato; chicken pox of the tomato foot and mouth disease in cattle, also Of the potato, like small poX.
 Pursuing his research into the virus of diseases incompletely or ineXactly known, Dr. Tissot claims 10 have discovered that syphlus is caused not by the spirochaeta, but by mildcw, and similarly that ma laria is not due 10 tho hematozoon, but to mildew similar to that Of rice and certain other vegetable organisms.
 pr. Tissot claims 10 have trans. formed tuberculosis cultures into mildcw, which he found was iden- tical with that of the human or ganism, and this led him to what he considers the important conclu- sion that tuberculosis develops spontaneously in man, although 1t can, when once developed. be transmitted by contamination.
 Therefore. he argues, the proper way to prevent contagion Is not 10 suppress the causes Of contamina- ton, but eradicate spontaneous de- vclopmont of the disease. He con cludcs that the original sources of most diseases exist in mans daily food. but that contamination by foodstuffs is very rare. Food is only dangerous when mildCwed or rot ten.
 Dr. Tissot does not put forth the claim that he has found remedy for these diseases, but maintains that in the light of his experiments certain epidcmics might be fore stalled, such as cholera, by de- stroying poisonous mushrooms in the woods, and diphthcria by sup. pressing barley from childrcn's dict and avoiding the use Of bar ley straw In COW stables.