Cancer

Some time ago, Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit announced that he had found a cure for cancer. He said at the same time that he had no intention of making his cure public. For this he was expelled from the American Medical Association. Now he promises, through Cancer, a publication of the American Association devoted to the Study and Cure of Cancer, to give the details of his method in a forthcoming article. His theory is that the disease is caused by a germ which can be killed by the action of a chemical antitoxin in the body. This is a reasonable, almost a trite hypothesis. It is the formula of his synthetic antitoxin which is of absorbing interest to the medical world.

Dr. C. Everett Field, Director of the Radium Institute of New York, states that he has treated 78 cancerous cases with the Koch syrum. Said he: "Twelve cases are in the process of cure. Nineteen have died. Of those who died, it can be said that they were all in a class that presented the limits of lost vitality."