CANCER VIRUS REVEALED

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 1273, 15 July 1925, Page 7

CANCER VIRUS REVEALED

Success Of Two British Investigators AMATEUR 'SCIENTIST’S LEAP TO FAME. *. . r [By Electric Cable—Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. The “Daily Express’’ says that congratulations have been showered on Dr. Gye, biologist, and Mr. J. E. Barnard, expert on microscopy, who arc responsible for the cancer discovery (reported yesterday). Dr. Gye is a most retiring scientist, who has been conducting research on the Medical Research Council’s experimental farm for the past ton years. Mr. Barnard is purely an amateur scientist, who keeps a West End shop. He has devoted his leisure for many years to microscopy and Invented a special microscopic apparatus for Dr. Gye's experiments. The “Lancet” says Mr. Barnard is applying the optical methods he elaborated for study of bovine pleuropneumonia viruses to cancer viruses cultured by Dr. Gye. Not only has he made the cancer virus visible, but has photographed it. The results of Mr. Barnard’s observations so closely correspond with Dr. Gye’s experimental results that the existence .of a livfhg cancer virus appears to be established. Experiments how there arc two factors concerned in the aetiology' of cancer; the first, the living virus, the extrinsic factor, and secondly, a chemical substance produced by the cells, the intrinsic factor The “Lancet” concludes that Dr. Gye’s observations may represent the solution of the central problem of cancer. TWO DISTINCT FACTORS. UNIVERSAL GERM AND DEAD FLESH. (Received Tuesday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. The “Daily Sketch,” in the first nontechnical explanation of the cancer discovery, says it is how presumed tw r o definite and distinct factors play a part in producing cancerous tumours. Firstly, Mr. Barnard and Dr. Gye’s newly-discovered ultra miscroscopical germ which is universal, floating in the air like other germs; secondly', some dead material of the human body', which is peculiar to the individual. The “Sketch” asserts that without dead flesh, the experimenters could not induce the germ to produce a cancerous tumour. Cancer frequently follows blows and other injuries. It is now clear these produce dead material, wherein the cancer germ develops. The speaker emphasises that no treatment has y'et arisen from the discovery.