CANCER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19363, 21 July 1925, Page 9

CANCER

SCIENTISTS AT WORK AGAIN FULL STORY NOT YET TOLD LONDON, July 19. Dr. Gye and Mr Barnard arc back at their experimental farm. Dr. Gye is cautions. Interviewed, he said that to speculate in scientific results is contrary to common sense. The recent discovery has undoubtedly encouraged people, but it may after all prove foolish optimism. There are forty or fifty ultra-microscopic germs and it is known that they exist in con nection with smallpox, influenza and sleeping sickness. “That was really what Mr Barnard and I were probing for when we discovered thc cancer vims.’ ’ Mr Barnard said: “I think we shall be able to meet the severest critic of the authenticity of the discovery. W have reached the 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 movement ten times nearer than hither to. ’ ’ The Sunday Times says: Tt can confidently be stated that Dr. Gye and Mr Barnard even now have not told the full story. Wc believe that they ,are working upon securing immunity against the organism and chemical agent which together produce malignant disease. Tt is believed that in

I the case of chickens they have succeeded in securing immunity. interesting developments undoubtedly await, a detailed exposition, in the early lautumn. The technique of Dr. Gyo and Mr I Barnard is so highly individual that i in ease of an unforeseen happening their | methods would perish with them. The 'authorities tire therefore collecting a body of young technical efilhusiastß who will absorb their methods and b< able to work their instruments. 1 Meantime interest increases In the far-reaching advance in the treatment ;of smallpox and kindred germ-carrying I diseases, which Dr. Mervyn Gordon is I expected to reveal shortly as the result of researches into cow-pox and smfell- : pox viruses. He has been engaged for three years in research work in the ilaboratories of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on behalf of the Medidal Re‘search Council and will make a statement to the British Medical Association this week. Dr. Gordon said yesterday that his report would not be comparable, with Dr. Gye’s, ‘ ‘though it may bring progress a little further.”