THE CANCER MICROBE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 73, 20 March 1914, Page 1

THE CANCER MICROBE.

l)r I3osc, of the University of Muutpellior, claims to have discovered the cancer microbe. He declares that the parasite ex-ite* the cells of the body, imparting to I hem morbidly rapd prol.iicaey, c auses them to lose their form, and deprives tliern ot their functions m order, as it were, to domesticate them to its own profit. Through the spread into all parts <>l the body of the eels which arc tho bearers of the cancer parasite, .Nature's defence ultimately succumbs. ''Tho microbe," I'rolessor l)o»c confimu's, ''nre ("specially mot with in water, above till hi slitgnnnt wmei. They lire lwrius in tho organisms 01 a, Went number of insc; , i*>, fish, ami warm* Wooded animals, "Cttiioer i"s piu'ticuliu'l.y virulent in villages in (dose, proximity to streams and its origin is often fyUncl in a scrat:;h or an abrasion that seems as though it were accideuta.," Professor Hose tonchules bv cititv; several instances win; o caiuer of tin tongue could be traced' to have original ed from the scratch of a trout bone and where cancer of the face had icsulted from the sting of an insect. Cancer of tho digestive organs was also observed to be extremely frequent in villages wKere snails were largely consumed or where rabbits were found to be suffering from an affection of the liver.