CANCER.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18670, 20 April 1926, Page 11

CANCER.

gfIBNTIFIC ADVANCES. RESEARCH IN AMERICA. (ffOSC OUR 0W» CORRESPONDENT.) AAA FRANCISCO, February 25. trStft efforts are being made in TS United States and Canada £:£ P'° feMed obiect of discoTer i fejeause and remedy of the dread w£'d cancer, and at Chicago anjEsontribution on tho subject was Si'when Professor Maud Slye, of of Chicago, stated that year* of study and oxgiuon, during which sho used jKTlice, she had become convinced fJSer is hereditary, and that it germ disease. This disease is B t%ntagious, ]ic r experiments *SSLor Slye started her experiJffta 1800 with two mice She ■*E*U bit of tumourous growth into fSu of tho mice and found that ■u&njj inherited the disease. *taßrXt to prove her theory that AiuXeftw is not of germ origin, ProKtf fllf» many times has placed perHE hwlthv mice in the same cages *M'&t»9»& ones - I nstead . of c ° nSShlfl the disease by propinquity, Sr«uee remained healthy, she said. $, proved that cancer is not a germ

Wmour growth,' she said "is rc.JiTby reproduction. In hundreds - fSiMtt has bee" found that breast IS™nas been slowed up by mater- ■ Aloparently two factors are necesLfoproduce cancer. One is niheritI r, M pectibility and the other is ir- ■ folio* of the right kind applied to mv isceptible tissues," she said. lior Slye said that the results experiments indicated that chronic irritation of locally le tissues would do much tolling cancer.- _ peer Bacillus Described. ■ received in New York ■ We'd that the cancer bacillus, which fijjjbt Schumacher, in an address BDrfrtbe Micro-Uiological Society in. | fe) announced he had discovered rotas described by him as a vegem organism with a well-defined Mttnfribe. It is large and shaped like jßrietter S, with terminal nodules. It TRfjiible when magnified 60 diameters. is infective only iri cases nßfflpkl* pre-disposition to cancer, said a pre-disposition bet jj|srtiied with advancing age by imfunctioning of tho lymphatic fflKwhereby insufficient fermenting ■maWf) are secreted for splitting Bpfflipoid albumens. are mostly found in the HuCUve tissues and walls of blood HBjJfiurrounding the cancer growth, Hnumn the cancer tissue in which HEpp rapidly destroyed. Dr. SchuKJitgrV believes that the discovery Hfilfodicate a combination of surBflffS"" internal treatment, and is Hnpfotward to favourable chemicoHxMrotic experiments. He is a der■|§pt,"& native of "May ence, and llifh»t Munich and Leipsic as a Hffiwatej becoming assistant procities of Unna and Ham-been-carrying on exnHHEI in cancer research for the WwE-' < Dlibetes Tests.' lloutfr to * new treatment for dia- ' HmVpW* been found in experiments A. C, Ivy and J. I. FarWTOitni 'Northwestern University MBsnlto. hare just announced. ■BnJtiinirtOna said they had euccessMfinf ifapsplanted a portion of the |HmMKiaiS the mammary glands oi it/Wag found that the transplant functioned to imKfiiTtrtl** h producing a sufficient fflUr* fa** l * ll tnat diabetes would the remainder of the 7 IBflfetag removed. Secretion of J Ijjpwt'digestive juices was continu- ! s[s|flie}(fiifted portion. • ffijffwjfla; ,6f j transplanting, they ' riot yet sufficiently praotit or curo °* diabetes • IlilP^rtf 6 "'' 5n West Virginia. a • SPfp|*i'-, dispatched' stating that • SKftoM 1 birth, Howard Cook, aged ) pfwwhaa' opened his eyes and obl |g|wt*M ,wonders of nature for the ► 9^<,w^a «L ** operation by Previously the sur*Wmm»]wnii tIM to two other famiV . Fay and ■HPi, sitters, .and another is now undergoing 'raM^lre^ l * "°P« she also four'were afflicted with iliiliwiat'btrth. Young Cook's first >HHgßtt|of vision was that it seem'■^^thpftl^h^he/had been behind a IWjgTOKF , jßfcy»«nf Of tin Bay. / comment on the re■HHraWttb of C. E. Wynn WilUniversity of Wales, at I Mw type of rays, supthe ulbra-voilet W4J made in Montreal by aHrac&^S l * 'Profesoor of Physics, PHwbmiWtae Department of Physics j B^E^ M * hce th * statement to the reported discovery iIHraSPW °L r »y» between the ul- | tMHSffiM 3 '*«»s, the following HffiPJ? t * mt> " **' Ev^Baid - <<ln 'JHS^raSi^*' i^* 7e *° consider in , w * abftH measure short nWmpl .nalataoii. First of all an to 2,64 centimeters, that BHBBBVt'Wo juad* $: half centimeters, the centimeters into ■Mffgvnd million partß r one of theaa is called an HKjPj. wit inv honour of/ the ilphysicist who did so much in spectroscopic work. ■BisjWfflra is unable to see one ■SlS*^. 1 " 8 fnys from 4000 to 8000 exists on both sides Waves of greater H^MR the dark heat rays are MSbljJ* "* the spectrum, and «*«ad right up to the Z? TW wiicn are ««nploy- * ¥ > * s . •» used in wire•/IrWHfFtiiTrii * Bi 3* °f the spectrum |BSfcsS!!i? lt ultra-violet ray's exI^Hfc^^iS 1 ™ namely from 9KP',£. about 200 angstrom taBSjW" are seven or eight H^^|^ x -rayß and Gamma rays, rtdiologist uses about four-tenths of an J!^BB^PP > . th » ultra-violet and these from about HH^TOaff»ri£j s ' ft _ nn 'ts amounting ■MmQy OMatin a line in this McLennan, who and Fuller, at 1 found a line from unexplored re- j MM|aßßfflSy<ptt this work was pub■HH&^KSßi^ 8 ? °f tn e Royal EJIHIwErr 1 "''- }m P'ofeesor ' *P*$K .other lines in i tfl&MPW9™y- >n d results' were ' wpnyß ' Journal Kurth, of obtained lines in l 'filraHwlii" l^on rom oxv * i i^ 011 ' titanium, iron,: t'M&mtißaßjmSK * w ox yE° D down , Wrefore that whilst I is unexplored, < lines which have • Wfty Bcr ° ss it. HHHHi'p in this region penetrate far

through matter as they are stopped by a thin sheet of paper and even by a Ihin layer of air. Hence it is generally necessary to work in a good vacuum." Lethal Vapour. Carbon monoxide, the greatest poison involved in motor-cars, will be conquered by research, following the investigation by science which resulted in bringing ethyl gasoline again into use, it is asserted by Dr. Harrison E. Howe, editor of the official journal of the American Chemical Society. "Employment of tetraethyl lead, which enters into this anti-knock compound, will stimulate scientific enquiry into motors," according to Dr. Howe, so as "eventually to abolish carbon monoxide through perfect combustion." Dr. Howe, .whose findings as to ethyl of more than a year ago have been bcrne out by the report of the Conference of the United States Public Health Service, sees a triumph for both industry and publio safety in the work of the investigating committee named by Surgeon-General Hugh S. Cumming. •'The report of this committee, confirming conclusions reached by Dr. It. R. Savre of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, atit< ITr. R. A. Kehoe, of the University of Cincinnati, evidences valuable service to the public," Dr. Howe said. The net result of the efforts of these scientists, Dr. Howe predicts, will be hot onlv tho ultimate conquest of carbon monoxide, but also an advance in automobile design, a closer union of chemistry nnd industry, better conditions in garages and shops, and a field of greater usefulness for the Federal Government in safeguarding public Chemistry .can save industry if called upon in time, says Dr. Howe warning that States and cities should act to eliminate hazards known to exist whoMy apart from the ethyl gasoline in the nntion's garages and automobile shops. He says Congressional action is required on this important subject. The American women, who grew slender to win the approving smile of fashion, had drawn upon herself the disapproving frown of scionce by that came action. , ... Spurred by reports of widespread iliheslth among women who diet too much to conform to the slender styles of the present, twenty-five eminent U.b. physicians and scientists assembled in New York in a two-day conference wtth the hope of evolving.a normal weight scalo for adults. ',,... j The effects of too much dieting—and also of overweight—as regards tuberculosis, elands, skin, heredity and nervous disorders had au important place in the discussion. The primary object, however; was to find the "normal weight so that those who would diet wight know how far they might safely go.