CANCER; WHAT IS IT?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22612, 2 July 1935, Page 5

CANCER; WHAT IS IT?

TO THE EDITOR Sir—The whole of the medical fraternity throughout the world are striving to find the cause of cancer in order' to dis-

cover a cure of this dreadful scourge. It is a scientific fact that the human body, weighing 1501 b, contains 50. grains of iron in the blood, and the rest of the body supplies enough of this metal to make a spike large enough to carry his weight. Research has definitely proved that life could not normally continue without this quantity of essential element. Yet with all its necessary qualities it has one great inherent weakness — that of corrosion. If any portion of the body does not function with the rest pf the organism, and permitted to remain in that state without treatment, a chemical decomposition sets in, and stale air is caused, thus affecting the molecules of iron-in the blood. Though this may not be dangerous at first, it will lead to complications. s. If any organic substance, such as a portion or a part of the human body, is in a state of decomposition, is it not quite possible that small traces of carbonic acid generate? This acid as a gas is deadly in execution, for it penetrates to the very heart of the mass and ends by converting the iron in the blood into an earthy substance quite different in quality. Therefore, does it not stand to reason tlyjt the acids are enemies, in a more or less degree, and iron, above all metals, is an easy victim. When the human cancer increases in virulence and hurries the unfortunate patient to a speedy death the acids are probably the responsible accelerators. After a series of experiments I have come to the conclusion that what corrosion is to iron, so is cancer to the body, and I should strongly recommend the medical faculty to turn its attention to this treatise. — I am, etc., Joseph Bulte. Dunedin, July 1.