CAUSE OF CANCER

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18095, 10 June 1924, Page 7

CAUSE OF CANCER

GERM ISOLATED BY CANADIAN SCIENTIST. TREATMENT GIVES REMARKABLE RESULTS. (by cable press associatiok copthioht.) (reuter's telegrams.) (Received June 9th, 8.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 8. According to a telegram from Philadelphia, the "North American," in an article withheld from publication lor 15 months "in the interest of science," says:— r ihe cause of cancer lias been discovered, also a treatment which, though still in the experimental stage, is producing remarkable results. The discoverer is Dr. T. J. Glover, a native of Toronto, who, in an article, says that he has established scientifically that the disease is due to a microorganism. He has isolated the genu, and proved by a conclusive laboratory test, known as the "Koch cycle" its part as a causative factor. Dr. Glover has conducted research work in New York for four years. Dr. Glover is now making significant progress towards perfecting a method of determining the presence of the micro-organism in the blood, in order to detect the disease in its incipient stage, so affording greater possibility of cure.

If subsequent results bear out tho claims here made tor Dr. Glover's investigation, the effect will be to give (Janaua an honoured, reputation in the worid of medical science, for already the Dominion has given tho world Dr. i l '. G. Banting, discoverer of insulin, and now Protessor of Medical lie search in the .University of Toronto, with whc/je work is associated the name of another Toronto professor, Dr. J. J. 11. Macleod. "Since the war," wrote Dr. J. Murray Clark in "Current History, '> a couple of months ago, "there lias developed in Canada an intellectual life comparable in certain respects with the" activities which made the glory of the 'spacious days' of Queen Elizabeth. . . . in CanaJft to-day the most Brilliant contributions are being made in the realm of material things—scientific research, the application of science to industry, the problems of progress and prosperity."