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THE ENZYME
TREATMENT OF CANCER
term
“ science “ and its variations in the present writing. The writer is actuated
solely by his deep reverence for the truths of Nature her facts and truths are
to him everything, and human “authority” nothing. Neither praise nor blame, nor
even abuse nor ridicule, is asked for, sought after, or desired. The actual
discoveries entailed in the finding out of Nature’s remedies for malignant
disease possibly are, be it admitted, trifling; perhaps, too, they deserve no
human praise, much less do they call for ridicule. The long years spent in
daily and nightly labours in the search after the general principle of an
antithetic alternation of generations as the basis of the life-cycle of all the
higher animals, including man, were something different, and the results were
their own and only reward. Why the publication of true facts of Nature—such as
are recorded in this book—should earn for their author the recompense of
ridicule I know not. Baseless assertions—such as that “ trypsin “ is without
action upon living cancer-cells—are not evidences, and in no civilized court of
justice would they be admitted as such. One thing is now clear, and the whole
world may be challenged to contradict it: this is, that if it be asserted—as it
has been more than once publicly by British official researchers—that trypsin
is devoid of action upon living cancer-cells, then this same” trypsin
would
also be found by any physiological chemist to be destitute of action upon all
other albuminous substances in this universe. A” trypsin” devoid of action upon
cancer-cells can also have no action at all upon milk, and yet it is mainly by
its action upon milk that trypsin is usually estimated by chemists and by
manufacturers of ferment preparations. Since a strong solution of trypsin, when
injected daily hypodermically, has been known to liquefy a large living
recurrent epithelioma or skin-cancer in less