Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
DOCTOR QUESTIONS
CANCER TREATMENT
Coffee and Humber Injection
Extracts Are VaIueIeSs,
He Claims.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, September IL
The new cancer treatment of DrS. Cof-
fee and Humber of San Francisco was
questioned at the medical session of the
American Chemical Society here yes
terday by DR.. Ellice Mcdonald. director
of cancer research at the Graduate
Medical School of the University OF
Pennsylvania.
The Coffee Humber treatment is by
injecting an extract made from the
covering of the adrenal glands of GER
tain animals.
Mcdonald said that in his laboratories
extensive experiments for the past
eight months upon animals with cancer
by use of extracts from this same cover
ing show the extract from this source
to be useless for cancer.
Substitutes for the gland grating of
Regeneration" fame, which chemists
are just beginning to develop, were ex-
planned to the division of medical
chemistry.
The substitutes are secretions of
three glands and of other glands that
probably never can be transplanted.
The chemists extract the secretions and
administer them like ordinary medical
remedies.
Their experiments have barely
touched upon human uses yet, but in
dictate a field of human application like
that of other medicines in curing the
sick, slleviating premature age or aiding
subnormal youth.
No miracles like restoration OF youth
were even foreshadowed, but amazing
practical experiments were reported.
A hormone, extracted from the cover
ing of the adrenal gland, which already
has saved one human life, was de-
scribed by Dr. Frank A. Hartman Of the
University of Buffalo.
E. c. Kendall of the Mayo Founda-
ton told of an apparent new combina-
ton Of iodine found in the thyroid
gland. j. M. Rogoff of Western Re-
serve University and l.. G. Rowntree Of
the Mayo Foundation described the eff
fects of two hormone extracts in al
leviating Addison's disease.
Value to Nation Stressed.
The value of scientific study to the
Nations political and economic life,
including prohibition, was stressed in
the annual address by the president of
the American Chemical Society, DR..
William Mcpherson of Ohio State Uni
versity.
Mature" he said, makes no leaps.
We have only to look about us for IL
Illustrations of the trouble that results
from refusing to regard this method OF
nature For many years there was
slow. but gradual. progress made IN
overcoming the evils of intempsrance.
Then we got in a hurry, and almost
overnight, under stress of emotion, and
by a vote of the people, we made leap
from a position in which a large per-
centage of our people could legally OBJ
tain liquors as a beverage to one IN
which no one could legally do so. And
many seemed to be surprised at the
results" Now, having ignored this
fundamental habit of nature. we find
ourselves in pretty fix. Whether to
go on in the hope that somehow, In
due time, natural processes will eaten
up with our attempt and come to our
rescue or whether to return to Tor
mer position and to reach the desired
goal gradually but surely is one. OF
the most perplexing problems before
the Nation.
"NTiracIe" Is Described.
DIR. Rowntree described a modern
s'rniracle" that took place at the Mayo
Clinic at Rochester, MINI.
A man was brought there dying OF
Addison's disease, he said. This hap
pened Just after hormone extract OF
the adrenal cortex had been isolated
at Princeton University and the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory by Drs.
Swingle and Pfiffner.
Rountree had some of the new ex-
tract sent by airplane and given to the
dying man.
I'm three days." he said. IAN amazed
inferno came to me saying this man
was sitting up demanding wieners and
sauerkraut. Eating is one thing that
an Addison's disease patient does not
want to do.
Since then we have saved several
other persons suffering from this ordi-
narily incurable disease, but it must be
remembered that the treatment may
have to be repeated We cannot say