Cancer

The development of a theory:

Cancer is caused by absence in the human body of a serum which dissolves centres of infection. Therefore, extract this serum from animals and inject into humans.

But it is found necessary to repeat this treatment every few weeks, with the result that the patient's natural resistance is weakened.

It is then discovered that the serum which naturally prevents cancer is produced in a small gland in the neck, and that this gland becomes decreasingly active until, at 50, it often ceases to function. Therefore, stimulate this gland. But the gland cannot be sufficiently stimulated.

Finally a serum, artificially made, is discovered. Injection of this serum will give immunity from cancer. Use of the serum in connection with an operation will prevent a reappearance of the disease.

This epitomizes the work of Professor Gaetano Fichera, upon which he has lavished a great part of his life and most of his private fortune, at Pavia, Italy. His discovery of the artificial serum he will announce at the meeting of the Medical Section of the League of Nations, at Rome, next month.

Many medical men, as tribute to Fichera, have undertaken to collect funds for a cancer institute in Milan, where his discoveries can be developed.