CANCER VIRUS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 193, 20 July 1925, Page 8

CANCER VIRUS.

SCIENTISTS’ METHODS. TO BE ABSORBED BY YOUNG ENTHUSIASTS. Received July 20, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, July 19. The Sunday Times says: “It can confidently be stated that Dr Gye and Mr Barnard even now have not told the full story. Wo believe that they are working upon securing immunity against an organism and a chemical agent which, together, produce a malignant disease. It is believed that in tlie case of chickens they have succeeded in securing immunity. Interesting developments undoubtedly await the detailed exposition in the early autumn'. The technique of Dr Gye and Mr Barnard is so highly individual that, in the case of the unforeseen happening, their methods would perish with them. The authorities are therefore collecting a body of young technical enthusiasts who will absorb their methods and be able to work their instruments. In the meantime interest increases in the farreaching advance in the treatment of small-pox and kindred germ-carrying diseases, which Dr Mervyn Gordon is expected to reveal shortly, as a result of researches into cow pox and small pox viruses. He has been engaged for three years in research work in the laboratories of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on behalf of the Medical Research Council, and will inake a statement to the British Medical Association this week. Dr Gordon said, yesterday, that his report would not be comparable with that of Dr Gye’s, though it may bring progress a little further.”—. Reuter.