Treatment Of Carcinoma With The Body Fluids Of A Recovered Case; A Preliminary Communication

Abstract

This preliminary communication is made, first, in order that the attention of the profession may be called to the possible significance of body fluids from the rare cases of those who have recovered or are recovering from carcinoma; second, to correct the false impressions which may have been conveyed by the premature and unauthorized news items in the daily press; and, finally, to secure an opportunity to remind physicians practically interested in this study, that the urgency for this treatment, of hopeless inoperable cases, is hardly just, either to these patients themselves or to a method from which it is hoped to secure new resources and new light through deliberate and reasonable tests. It is not my purpose to announce at this time a new cure for cancer, but to call attention to the remarkable, selective necrotizing effects upon carcinoma cells of the ascitic fluid from a recovered case of carcinoma, wherever in the body of the patient the fluid is introduced.