From Our Own Correspondent, Paris, Aug. 16. The microbe of cancer has been discovered, according to a French medical man, Dr. Gaston Odin who asserts that he has isolated it. He describes it as a protoplasmic mass or inferior living organism, capable of reproduction and transform-ion into a great variety of forms, It is flat and gelatinous in compusition, with irregular edges round a antral kernel, as found in its original and undeveloped state, When consequence of a modification in its environment, it becomes able to develop, it spreads and shoots forth in all directions.
Dr. Odin does not venture to affirm that his discovery will lead to a cure for cancer, but he maintains that he can tell whether a patient is cancerous or not. At present there is often room for doubt as to the exact nature of a tumour and, while the knife, which ight have saved the patient's life is withheld, the disease may be spreading; but, if Dr. Odin is correct, the presence of the cancer microbe can now be detected by examination of the blood: He has prepared a serum form microbe cultures and says he has used this serum with satisfactory results, as shown by reductions of the cancerous lesions. He quotes two eminent medical men, Professors Lannois and Matruchot, as having verified his discovery and says that when the disease is not too far advanced, the serum will kill the microbe.
Dr. Doyen, it will be remembered, believes that he has arrived at a similar result by stimulating the activity of the friendly blood corpuscles or phagocytes which attack and absorb the hostile bacilli. Up to the present, Dr. Odin's announcement docs not seem greatly to have stirred the medical world.
New curative methods cannot be accepted until after they have withstood innumerable tests under all sorts of conditions. Even Dr.
Odin's ten years of investigation may have led him to wrong conclusions.
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