TEAMWORK

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 July 1925, Page 5

TEAMWORK

CAUSE OF CANCER DISCOVERERS INTERVIEWED (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 19 Dr Gye and Mr Barnard are back at " their experimental farm. Dr Gye is cautious. Interviewed, he said that to speculate on scientific results is contrary to common sense. r lhe recent discovery has undoubtedly encouraged people but it may after all prove foolish optimism. There* are forty or fifty ultra microscopic genus. It is known that they exist connection with smallpox, influenza, and sleeping sickness. “That was really what Barnard and I were probing for when we discovered the cancer virus.”

Mr Barnard said: “We have reached a. stage when it is possible for team work to start, and this may lead to the discovery of a new type of living things. Our instruments of to-day will register the accuracy of a movement ten times nearer than hitherto.”

The Sunday Times says: "It can confidently he stated that Dr. Gye and Mr Barnard even now have not told the full story. We believe they are working upon teeming immunity against the organism and chemical agent which together produce malignant disease. It is believed that in the case of chickens they have succeeded in securing immunity.* Interesting developments, undoubtedly await a detailed exposition in the early autumn. The technique of Dr Gye' and Mr Barmrd is so highly individual that in the case of the unforeseen happening their methods would perish with dliem. The authorities are 5 therefore collecting a body of young technical enthusiasts who will absorb their methods and be able to work their instruments. Meantime interest increases in the far reaching advance in the treatment of smallpox and kindred germ carrying diseases), which Dr Mervyn Gordon is expected to reveal shortly as the result of researches into cowpox and smallpox 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 make a statement to the British Medical Association this week. Dr. Gordon said yesterday that his report would not bo comparable with Dr. Gve's though it may bring progress a little further.