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INTRODUCTION
C ANC ER Its Function and Cure, T
The Prevention of CA NCER, 1926 The fact that both the incidence of cancer and the mortality from
C ancer Supplementary Points, 19 this disease is on the increase should awaken every one to the
The Koch Cancer Treatment and i
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importance of seeking measures for the prevention of this
The Function of Cancer dreaded scourge of the human race. Each year, hundreds of
Journal of the American College thousands die of cancer and in our country alone there are,
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perhaps, a million sufferers. In the light of recent researches,
Publications 1940-1949 which reveal its insidious development, we might conclude that
Publications 1950-1967 other millions are suffering from cancer in its formative stages
without suspecting the identity of their trouble. They are not
aware of the misery that may be ahead of them nor of the fact
that clinical and laboratory observations of the past ten years
point to the conclusion that the prevention of cancer lies in the
following of certain simple definite health measures.

Only a decade ago cancer was preeminently a disease of the

aged and of those past middle life. Even today statistics show
that one out of every 10 who reaches the age of 40 dies of this
disease. It is occasionally met with in youth, is quite frequent in
the twenties and common in the thirties. The statistical studies of
Hoffman and Schereschewsky show that mortality from cancer
has increased in the last 20 years about 30 percent. The disease
is on the increase in spite of the most drastic and sometimes cruel
measures of attack that have been applied to control it in the
afflicted. Surgery, X‑ray, and radium have failed to stem its tide.
Many of those who submitted to these measures for early relief
have died quicker or have apparently suffered more than they
would have done if they had been left alone. The steady increase
in the death rate‑from cancer demonstrates that such measures as
are now usually directed against the local manifestation (the
growth or ulcer) really have no valid place in the prevention or
cure of cancer.

To deal with this problem it is necessary to first remove from the

mind any delusion that cancer can be cured by being burned or
cut out. On the other hand, it is now a fact, practically
demonstrable, that the essential conditions to the development of
the disease can be prevented from existing in the blood, that the
prevention of this disease is a matter of hygiene (chiefly personal)
and its real cure, a matter of constitutional treatment.

MEDICAL AUTHORITY AND FOLLY

In the serious matter of the practice of medicine, the

conscientious physician naturally desires to be backed up in all he
does by authoritative guidance. In this country he has been led to
rely on the propaganda of the American Medical Association and
its constituent bodies. He looks to the Journal of the American

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Medical Association for the published expression of accepted
propaganda or the denouncement of what has been judged
"unfit." Were the men who have filled and are filling the positions
on the editorial staff, especially of editor in chief, of this great
journal, men of great scientific vision like Paget or Sambon, men
trained as bacteriologists, as epidemiologists or as physiological
chemists, the attitude today concerning, the cancer problem in
America might be very different. Unfortunately the men who have
been at the helm are great organizers, not great scientists, nor
even clinicians of great attainment through years of conscientious
private practice. It would seem their chief energy has been
directed to the building of a great organization for more energy
and money appears to be spent by "orthodox” medicine in the
effort to secure legislation against the inroads made on its domain
by the cults, than is spent in the honest search for the truth about
cancer‑its real cause, prevention and cure.

The long adherence of medicine to the theories of the

pathologists and to destructive methods in the treatment of
cancer will soon be recognized as the greatest medical folly of the
century. Had this policy resulted in the cure of the afflicted, or
even of a large percentage of them such a procedure alight have
been justified. But failure is now generally recognized by both the
laity and the medical profession and utter ignorance of the cause
and cure of cancer was acknowledged at the last convention of
the American Medical Association held in Atlantic City in May,
1925. In the heat of argument, X‑ray, radium and surgery
emerged as inefficient as cures. No practical ideas for the
prevention of the disease were stressed.

In spite of this chaotic condition in America the American

Association for the Control of Cancer, which has the
endorsement of both the American Medical Association and the
United States Public Health Service, each year stampedes this
country with a campaign of education (the distribution of leaflets,
the giving of lectures and radio talks to laymen by physicians,
chiefly surgeons, and radiologists), the effect of which is to lead
people to resort to inefficient if not often destructive methods. In
the light of facts discovered within the last 10 years by private
investigators, now checked up by others and proved by clinical
experience over a period of years, the possibility of the control of
cancer by the destructive methods, which have been, not only
approved, but practiced by the leading lights of clinical medicine,
can exist only in the imagination of the uninformed.

PREVENTION VERSUS CONTROL

Cancer is a constitutional disease of germ origin and like

diphtheria has its local manifestations. Like diphtheria, its
prevention and cure are matters of constitutional therapy. When
the germ of diphtheria was discovered, we were prepared to
successfully fight the disease. Today we are in possession of facts
that should enable us to be even better prepared for the fight
against cancer for we already know more about it than we do
about diphtheria. Not only has a germ been isolated, its life cycle
traced, its intermediate host scented and its method of attack
studied, but the possibility of its being present in the system long
before the development of a tumor or ulcer has been
demonstrated. The preconditions essential for the existence of the
germ in the body have been recognized by prominent men like
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Ehrlich, Shaw Mackenzie, Lane, Glover, Gye and Koch (Wm.
F.). The latter has isolated the poison this germ creates and has
produced a synthetic substance which acts as a converter of this
toxin into antitoxin.

In short, the factors that determine why one person contracts

cancer and why another does not, are now fairly well enough
understood and sufficiently proven to serve us effectively in the
prevention of cancer. To be sure, these discoveries are recent,
(mostly within the last ten years). But were it not for the extreme
conservatism, the necessary caution and overconfidence in the
infallibility of doctrines accepted by the medical profession, the
world at large might have been benefited by this knowledge ere
this. The problem is not one of control but of prevention.

BEACON BEARERS

The history of medicine is full of incidences where a discovery of

great import to the public health was not adopted until years and
years had been wasted in controversy, false investigation,
slander, bickering, and suppression. In some instances, not until
the old standpatters had died off was the way clear for the new
discovery to be recognized. Among the men who thus suffered
martyrdom but whose names now stand in the limelight as pillars
in the real progress of medicine are Harvey, Jenner, Holmes, S
Semmelweis, Pasteur, Lister, Koch (Robert) of the past century.
Among those of the 20th century, some of whom are today
objects of persecution by, orthodox medicine, but whose names
will stand out in the future as great benefactors of mankind, are
those of Smith (Irwin F.), Fibiger, Borrel, Blumenthal, Sambon,
Glover, Young, Gye, Barnard, and Koch (Wm. F.) for their
observations and contributions on the etiology, prevention and
cure of cancer.

The accomplishments of these men are such that the medical

profession can no longer turn a deaf ear to their testimony with
the assertion that they are either charlatans or honesty mistaken.
They are the ones who have made the observations, who have
done the work in the laboratories, who have time and again
checked up on their work and who have reached conclusions
based on incontrovertible, observable facts that can be and have
been duplicated by others. Already the work of Glover has been
duplicated by Louden, McCormack, and Scott. It is not an
accident that the observations of a number of others dovetail into
those made by Glover and Young. Nor can we turn lightly aside
the observations and the prophecies of Sambon, the greatest of
English epidemiologists, in the light of his past achievements and
prophecies relative to the intermediate host of such diseases as
malaria, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain fever and sleeping
sickness.

Ehrlich paved the way for chemotherapy in the treatment of

cancer. William F. Koch has undertaken the study of cancer
as a phenomenon of physiology, of biochemistry. He has
worked out some of the chemical problems of cancer not
undertaken by any one else‑the isolation and synthetic
production of the toxin of cancer, the chemical function of
the cancer tumor and, lastly, and most important of all, the
production of a synthetic chemical which acts as a
converter in the changing of the toxins of cancer into
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antitoxins and thus by reinforcement of the natural
processes, when injected into a sufferer of the dread
disease, has brought about a cure in a percentage of the
cases treated.

Koch's first contribution to science was one of physiological

chemistry, the discovery of the function of the parathyroid glands,
four little glands present in the neck of all the higher animals.
Koch noted that, when these glands are removed or seriously
injured by disease, the animal dies from a definite set of
convulsions. He found that certain poisons, the guanidin bases,
were responsible for the convulsions and the death of these
animals, but that so long as the parathyroid glands were present
and active, they kept the animal immune to the guanidin poisons.
This work was later completely confirmed by Paton and his staff
of the University of Glasgow, and for this work which involved
four years of intensive study Paton was awarded the world's
Triennial Prize in Medicine from Harvard University. Had it not
been for Koch's early researches concerning the function of the
parathyroid glands, he might never have been led to isolate the
toxin of cancer, to inject it into animals, and to grasp the real
significance of his observations and their bearing on the solution
of the cancer problem.

At the request of the Committee on Organization of the Anti-

Cancer Federation of America, Dr. Koch has prepared the
following article on the "Prevention of Cancer."

ORLANDO DUCKER, M. D.
Secretary, Committee on Organization, Anti‑Cancer Federation
of America.

THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF

CANCER
By WILLIAM F. KOCH, M. D., PH. D.

The germ that causes cancer was first discovered and its life
history traced by Glover of Toronto, and by Young, of
Edinburgh, working independently, at about the same time. Their
first announcement was made in 1920. Years before this Doyan,
of Paris, and Clark, of London, had discovered a phase of the
life cycle of this germ. More recently, Blumenthal of Germany
and Gye and Barnard of London have isolated and proven a
phase of this germ to be the cause of cancer. But the studies of
Glover and Young are the most complete and their work within
the last year has been confirmed by Scott of Butte, Montana, and
by Louden and McCormack, of Toronto. They have found that
the germ exists in every specimen of cancer tissue, that it can be
grown in artificial culture media, and that it can be transplanted
from one culture to another many times and still be able to cause
cancer when inoculated into susceptible animals or humans.

Sambon has noted that cancer is an endemic disease that is

becoming pandemic. There are cancer houses, cancer streets,
cancer valleys and there are places where cancer is unknown. It
was Sambon who connected the transmission of diseases like
malaria, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain fever and sleeping
sickness through an intermediary host such as a mosquito, a
louse, a tick or a fly. And he has made the observation that while
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cancer infected areas swarm with cockroaches, mice, and rats,
these pests are not found in a district of Iceland where cancer is
unknown. Fibiger has shown that there must be some relationship
between the nematode of cockroaches and the cancer of mice
and rats which eat the cockroaches.

Glover finds that the cancer germ exists in several different

phases: a bacillus, a coccus or spore form and a filterable form.
The spore is very resistant to destruction by boiling or by usual
antiseptics. For this reason it exists wide spread in nature and we
are all more or less exposed to it. The prevention of cancer,
therefore, depends not so much on the successful avoidance of
the germ as upon maintaining such conditions, as prevent the
germ from existing or developing in our bodies. A number of
investigators have demonstrated that the germ can not produce
cancer in normal tissues.

CONTRIBUTING CAUSES

There are three circumstances that determine the production of

cancer. They are:

First. Unbalanced nutrition, whereby the various tissues of the

body become overloaded with incompletely assimilated food
products. These in turn serve as material for the support of germ
growth, and for the production of poisons. They also blunt the
body chemistry, cutting down its efficiency, and hampering the
immunity process.

Second. Impaired activity of the digestive organs, productive of

constipation, whereby the cancer germs can accumulate, multiply
rapidly and produce their poison in large quantity in the large
intestine from which both the poison and the germ are absorbed
and carried by the blood throughout the body

Third. An injury to some part of the body, whereby the

circulation is impaired and the oxidation processes in the injured
tissues diminished. The area of congestion, or stasis, thus
produced is a favorable one for the germ to locate and produce
the poison which acting upon the injured cells converts them into
cancer cells.

The cancer cells once formed lead an unrestrained existence and

multiplying rapidly produce growths that spread throughout the
body causing death in several indirect ways.

THE CANCER TOXIN

Since the poison or toxin produced by the cancer germ is the

active substance causing cancer, some of its properties will be
considered that we may better understand what cancer is. In my
study of the development of the parathyroid glands in the
embryo, I observed that this embryonic tissue resembled cancer
tissue in its microscopic characteristics, and the thought came to
me that perhaps cancer might represent a developmental stage of
a new protective gland still undergoing evolution toward
perfection. If such was the case, I argued that there must be a
poison at the base of the disease and determined if possible to
find it and study its effects on the body. Having succeeded in
isolating this toxin and in synthetically preparing a quantity for
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experimental purposes, I injected it into rats. These animals after
being injected with the cancer toxin showed disturbances of the
more delicate mechanisms of the nervous system. They would go
blind and bump into the sides of their cages, or they would lose
their sense of equilibrium and turn their heads into peculiar
positions or even spin about on their hind legs or move about in a
circle. Having observed that the cancer producing poison so
markedly affected the optic and equilibrium mechanisms of the
brain of the animals, cancer patients were studied to note if they
gave any evidence of this type of poisoning. Upon carefully
studying the disease in a large number of cancer cases, it was
found that not only were minor or very grave interferences with
nerve action dominantly present, but that after the cancer growth
developed, relief to a variable degree from these symptoms was
obtained, and thus the protective action of the growth against the
toxin 'was clearly demonstrated. A description of the symptoms
that, so often precede the development of the cancer growth was
given in a paper on "Cancer" read before the American
Association for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer in June 1924,
and published in Cancer, Oct. 1924.

Clinical history discloses the persistence of toxemia over

a period, in some cases as long as twenty years, previous
to the advent of the growth. After the growth has come
these toxic manifestations disappear completely or nearly
so. After a surgical removal of the growth they return;
and with recurrence of the growth again disappear. We
designate these symptoms as the pregrowth symptoms,
for they differ from those consequent to the activity of the
growth itself.

The pregrowth symptoms caused by the toxin stimulus

are mainly manifestations of interference with normal
nerve function, and predominately with certain
mechanisms of the central nervous system. Thus in a
series of two hundred cases distinct mental aberration,
incorrectly diagnosed as paranoia, was observed in two
percent of the cases. But the prevailing disturbance is an
interference with function of the second and third cranial
nerve mechanism. Thus an optic migraine without much
or any headache or aural disturbance, or an optic vertigo
with scotomata, might express the condition. The main
characteristics, as they occur in fully eighty percent of my
cases are as follows:

The points of disturbance lay both in the perception

centers for optic impulses and those centers where optic
impulses are conveyed into paths of motor control, of
both the optic apparatus and the general musculature.

Thus visual impulses, in one case, periodically caused

muscle tremors and convulsions. Covering the eyes gave
relief . . . . Another patient persistently saw needles and
pins wherever she looked, and she had been diagnosed a
paranoiac. Difficulty in accommodation results in a large
proportion of cases in a haziness of all objects closer
than or beyond a distance usually of some ten feet from
the patient. In these cases attempts at accommodation
give rise to a sensation of sickness but not particularly
nausea. Temporary blindness of the whole or part of the
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visual field is common, so that a patient may run into
things without seeing them. Or a sudden general loss of
sensation with blindness and a complete loss of muscle
control will cause the patient to drop to the ground,
without loss of consciousness and give the impression of
dying. The muscle control may be only partly lost and the
movements consequently uncoordinated. During these
spells pin‑point pupils have been reported. Great changes
in visual impulses, such as take place on turning out the
light or waking up in the morning, may cause a dizziness
with topsyturviness of after‑images or true images. In the
former case, turning on the light and fixing the eyes on an
object relieves. In the latter case, closing the eyes
relieves. These occurrences come in spells of only short
duration or last several weeks at a stretch and over a
period of a few or as many as twenty years prior to the
development of the growth.

Occasionally a peripheral neuritis is present. It may be

mild or severe and may be associated with areas of
anesthesia and paralysis of one or more groups of
muscles. But the percentage of such cases is small.

Since these symptoms, which occur in nearly ninety

percent of my cases, let up entirely or in large part with
development of the growth, the detoxicating function of
the latter is evident; and resembles the detoxicating
function of the parathyroids.

The relationship between the germ producing the poison and the
development of the growth is clearly set forth in paper read
before the convention of the American Association for
Medico‑Physical Research (Sept.1925) is here reprinted in its
entirety for besides some rather technical matter, it gives the facts
so clearly that it can be read by all with profit.

CANCER AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE

IMMUNITY PROCESS

A chemical compound is not simply a mass of material

but must be recognized as so much concentrated energy,
and its chemical behavior is a function of the energy play:
depending upon it. Light, for instance, can mediate any
type of reaction within and between chemical substances,
and certain chemical bodies can emit light vibrations. But
all chemical bodies emit characteristic vibrations
depending upon the dynamic state of, or disposition of
their electrons or valences. They may thus under proper
conditions behave as photochemic ferments. Nitrogen
containing cyclic compounds, offer the most important
class of such substances with which we have to deal in
physiology and pathology. Only a few of these bodies
have been chemically identified and the study of their
dynamics has been quite neglected.

Under the influence of vibrations received from other

chemical bodies and by virtue of the entropy in the
molecule three important classes of photochemic
reactions can be induced in the molecule varying from a

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change in the state of isorrhopesis to actual ionization
should the valences be in a sufficiently critical condition to
permit.

Isorrhopesis can take place between adjacent molecules,

(heterorrhopesis). The molecules thus flock forming
larger masses of molecules, with increase in entropy.
Such a system is not ionized, but is a nonconductor, a
colloid, and acts as a photochemic ferment; because the
vibration spheres of the heterorrhopesis constituents are
wide and concentrated, and other molecules can circulate
in their spheres, under which influence, adsorbed
electrons are given a variety of impulses some of which
are suited to accelerate the chemical reaction possible.
Thus the rate and extent of the reaction are increased.
Here a molecular system by virtue of its electronic
impulses can induce and propagate a chemical reaction in
other molecules without itself taking part in the reaction.
It thus serves as a photochemic ferment.

Likewise molecules representing different phases of

isorrhopesis in a substance can influence each other by
virtue of their abilities to vibrate sympathetically, so that a
more energetic phase of the substance can induce the
less energetic member to assume its valency disposition.
In this way they behave as photochemic ferments.

The reactions possible for any chemical substance are

determined by the characteristics of the medium, the
influence of other chemical bodies. Thus the conversion
of the cyanamides to urea in the anaerobic medium of the
colon does not take place, but the cyanamides in the
colon take up ammonia radicals and become the
guanidines, or they may polymerize with increase in
entropy, becoming the melamines.

These are toxic substances of anaerobic germ origin and

are continually absorbed from the colon by the blood and
circulated throughout the body. So the situation requires
a protective mechanism to permit a normal physiology.

In the presence of parathyroid function, these melamines

and guanidines are again reverted to cyanamides and
then to ureas and made harmless, and the body is thus
protected. When the parathyroids are removed from the
body, the guanidine toxins increase with production of
tissue degenerations, convulsions and, death.

So the parathyroid glands are a physiological

immunity mechanism, perfected and established in
the animal body. They protect against poisoning by
a product of anaerobic germ activity in the colon, as
we observed in 1912. This research has been later
confirmed at Glasgow and other European
universities.

With these chemical and physiological fundamentals as an

introduction, I wish to outline the program of the
pathogenesis of cancer in a practical way.

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The toxin causative to cancer, originates primarily in the
colon and is the product of anaerobic germ activity. The
observations of Colonel H. Hallilay, the British surgeon,
who spent some twenty years as Army Surgeon among
the native Indians, prove that where frequent loose bowel
movements are the daily habit, neither cancer, gastric
ulcer, appendicitis or gall bladder trouble is to be found.
The dietary prevention of colonic stasis, as accomplished
by Hay and Bulkley, also demonstrate that cancer and
some other diseases have their primary origin in colon
toxemia. Thus it is settled that the anaerobic germ
chemistry of the colon, through stasis, can produce a
general systemic poisoning productive of cancer.
Occluded tonsilar crypts are a certain but less frequent
source of the poison.

All living cells have in common certain structural chemical

groupings necessary to life. The virus associated with
cancer, prepares for itself an essential structural unit,
which has a counterpart in the animal cell. This virus toxin
is prepared in an anaerobic medium, while the structural
counterpart of the human cell is built up and functionates
in an aerobic medium. Thus, two phases of the structural
unit exist in nature, and as they represent homologous
molecules, they are capable of sympathetic electronic
vibration. Under proper conditions, the anaerobic or
germ form, can influence the aerobic or human form to
pulsate in unison with it and to assume the molecular state
represented in the germ form of the substance. An
induction of sympathetic electronic vibrations with
resulting influence on chemical structure thus take place.
The toxin thus behaves as a photochemic ferment.

So the toxin of the cancer virus, when colonic stasis is

present, is circulated through the blood and attacks every
tissue of the body. Various symptoms arise which may
precede the development of the growth for many years.
These may range in severity from dizziness, temporary
blind spells, headaches, neuritis, etc., to mental
disturbances grave enough to be diagnosed insanity. We
call these the pregrowth symptoms, since they let up in a
high percentage of the cases, with the appearance of the
growth. Impairment of functions of the glands of internal
secretion, may also result in simple and toxic goitre, and
adrenal insufficiency with pigmentation changes may
follow. Moreover senility changes and tissue
degenerations may precede and accompany the growth.

The growth first starts to develop where such circulatory

changes take place, that favor an increase in the supply
of the circulating toxin, and where a circulatory stasis
follows, permitting the region to become more or less
anaerobic. Injuries and scars, predispose to this
anaerobic condition and here the cancer germ's toxin can
carry on its inductive work to the best advantage.
Moreover the germ itself can grow in an anaerobic
medium to the best advantage and the region of
circulatory starvation offers opportunity for its culture.

Here the, toxin behaving as a photochemic ferment,

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converts more and more of the cell structural unit to the
germ phase of structure, and the cells thus robbed
compensate the loss by preparation of more and more
normal units. Each new unit prepared is converted to
germ phase of structure and the development of the virus
further favored. Thus we have a supply of the material
favoring germ reproduction, noticed recently by Gye and
Barnard, and called a specific factor. The more the cells
prepare of normally constructed units, the more germ
form of the substance is made from them through toxin
activity and the greater the development of the germ.
Finally the cells show fatigue and may die off, forming a
spreading ulcer, a rodent ulcer, gastric or duodenal ulcer
or an endometritis. Or the cells may prepare abbreviated
forms of the normal substance and reproduce to do this.
By this reproduction a growth is formed and it has a
function in that the abbreviated forms are more energetic
bodies than the normal form and they tend to influence
the toxin to assume their state of electron disposition. The
growth thus demonstrates a function in that an antitoxin is
approached, and by following this plan of attack, we
have been able to prepare the true antitoxin synthetically.
Unfortunately, this procedure of the tissue is not followed
out far enough to offer adequate protection. However by
thorough cleaning out of the colon continually, and by
proper increase in the circulation in the growth, or its
complete removal, if that can be done at this stage of the
game, a more or less satisfactory cure is to be had. I
have cured such a case, and so have others by proper
diet and colon lavage and removal of the circulatory
stasis in the growth. That such cures are but temporary,
can be inferred from the fact that no anti‑body
production of note has been established in the body. And
surgical removal of the growth at this time tends to
prevent the anti‑body production entirely and is therefore
the poorest of all methods of attack. The toxin is still in
the blood and the anaerobic conditions in the operation
wound, due to circulatory stasis, simply favor the
development of a new set of cancer growths, even
though the original growth were perhaps completely
removed. Proper diet and colonic flushing, and increase
in blood supply to the growth at this stage of its
development offers a greater measure of benefit and
permits the growth cells to tend to complete their
program of immunity development.

After a time, the ability to form the abbreviated units

becomes exhausted and the cells are supplied only with
the germ type of the structure of the substance. They can
incorporate these into their protoplasm and thus live an
anaerobic existence. In so doing, they are devoid of
physiological function, and grow or reproduce as fast as
germ activity supplies them with new anaerobic units.
They thus live in symbiosis with the germ, lose their
histological polarity and grow and spread as parasites
throughout the body, giving the usual clinical picture of
cancer.

During the growth period the body is generally

detoxicated by the multiplying cells taking out the units
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from the blood, that they incorporate into their own
structure. Hence the pregrowth symptoms of intoxication
generally subside during the time of cancer growth.
Should the cancer growth be removed largely, the
pregrowth symptoms recur until the growth of cancer
tissue catches up with the toxin production. At this time
also by energetic cleansing of the colon, and proper diet,
the returning pregrowth symptoms can be to a large
extent ameliorated, and recurrence of cancer tissue
slowed up.

The preparation we use to cure the disease is a synthetic

photochemic ferment of greater energy than the toxin, a
very energetic sample of the normal phase of structure of
the substance existing in the normal cell. It is energetic
enough to induce isorrhopesis change in all of the toxin
molecules, whether free or bound up in the protoplasm of
the cancer, cell or in the germ. It changes by its induction
power, all the germ phase of structure of the substance to
the normal aerobic phase. Thereby the cancer cells are
reverted to normal and the germ is killed, as it cannot
exist with the substance in an aerobic phase.

The cancer cells are changed to normal, through the

action of the treatment and then exist in excess of the
physiological demand. They undergo calcification and
digestion for removal, and the products are again used to
re-nourish the depleted body. Anaemia and cachexia
disappear and the pressure effects and other changes
consequent to the growth disappear, as it is absorbed.

The removal of the involuting growth is accomplished by

the ingrowth of angioblastic tissue which completely
replaces the growth. These little vessels retract as fast as
their work is done and they provide for the healing of
destroyed areas. Thus recto‑vagina and recto‑vesicular
fistulae are healed with normal tissue elements and
without scar production.

In the reconstruction of the tissues destroyed by the

growth, the new cells that are formed have au excess of
preformed structural units of the order of the
photochemic ferment, supplied by the treatment‑
material. These units are built up into the cells of the new
tissue being formed, and by virtue of their high
,photochemic value, these units provide a protective
value to the new tissue, making it capable of changing
any further molecules of the toxin to the state of structure
normal to the human cell. Thus the new tissue, besides
carrying on its usual function, acts as a new gland of
internal secretion, and words a continued protection
against existence of the toxin responsible for cancer. This
tissue can then functionate as an immunity organ like the
parathyroid glands, and through the treatment we .reach
the goal toward which the cancer effort is struggling in its
evolution‑a perpetual immunity against a toxic product of
a virus inhabiting the anaerobic recesses of the body, as
occluded tonsilar crypts and an inert colon."

The effect of this is not only the production of the cancer growth:
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Other tissues during the period of poisoning preceding the growth
response show the effects of its activity. Thus goitre, persistent
headache, neuritis, dementia, paralysis, gastric ulcer, bleeding
from the womb due to persistent ulceration within that organ, and
several other conditions warn us in advance that cancer is on the
way and that efficient measures are needed to eradicate the
disease even before the growth is discoverable. These conditions
result from the absorption of the cancer producing poison from
the large intestine; and from the action of this poison on the
various tissues of the body. Too often the germ has already
localized in one or more places in the body, and in due time
causes a growth to come into evidence.

THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AND THE PREVENTION OF

CANCER

Constipation is a great American evil. When we, eat more food

than can be properly digested and absorbed by the small
intestine, the excess passes into the large intestine where it can
support the growth of disease or putrefactive germs. This
situation is aggravated by the American habit of fast eating and
the swallowing of chunks of food that do not permit of a
thorough penetration by and mixture with the digestive juices, but
reach the large intestine undigested and unpurified by the action
of these juices; to ferment or putrefy and thus supply material for
germ growth. Ochsner, Sambon and others have contended that
the cancer germ is carried into the system with our food, hence
the importance of determining how the germ, gets into our food.

Putrid and fermented material retained in the colon is a constant

source of poisons that; on being absorbed into the system, act
fundamentally in the causation of many of our present day
chromic ailments, including cancer, gastric ulcer, high blood
pressure, neuritis, appendicitis and gall bladder troubles. Peoples,
like the Hindu, who living on their native diet and have three or
four loose bowel movements a day know not of the above
mentioned troubles. But as soon as the Hindu adopts the English
diet and habits of eating, they areas subject to these ailments as
are the English and Americans. Very often putrid material
remains plastered against the walls of the colon for years, and the
individual is not aware of his constipation, Sticky stools spell
incomplete digestion and indicate the likelihood of disease.

OVEREATING AND FASTING

The quantity of food must not be greater than what is required for
nutrition. Feeding as a means of entertainment a perversion for
which one must surely suffer. If, however, the food is taken in
excess of ones needs, it should be of such quality as will produce
rapid movement through the bowel, whereby it can sweep out
the large intestine, and thus change its contents so frequently that
no chance for accumulation of stale matter can take place. The
coarse whole cereals, raw vegetables and fruits offer this
advantage. The eating of meats and refined emasculated foods in
excessive amounts cannot but cause trouble. Putrid odors with
the bowel movements also predicate abnormal conditions in the
colon and are warning signs that now is the time to use preventive
measures.

Another source of digestive disturbance is improper mastication

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of foods. Starch foods require an alkaline medium for digestion.
This is provided by the saliva and therefore all cereal and other
starch foods should be carefully masticated and thoroughly mixed
with saliva before swallowing. The habit of eating cooked cereals
with milk leads to the bolting of these foods without proper
mixture with the saliva. Another vicious habit is the combination
of acids with starch foods, for example, potato salad. Green
salads eaten at the same meal with starch foods should not have
an acid dressing.

The flow of the digestive juices of the stomach is stimulated by

the presence of protein foods. These are digested in the stomach.
The more carefully they are masticated the more completely and
promptly will they be digested. Fatty foods are digested in the
small intestine.

Think these facts over, and bear them in mind in the preparation
of menus and in the method of combined and eating foods found
upon the table. A hint to the wise is sufficient.

Nearly all of us eat too much. One result of overeating is that

every body cell has pressed upon it more nutritional units than it
can take care of properly. These materials are not effectively
handled, they are only incompletely metabolized and remain
absorbed in the cell where they hamper its normal chemistry, cut
down its efficiency and serve as material for the nutrition of germs
and the production of germ poisons. What worse condition could
be imposed on the tissues of the body? And how on earth can
one expect to be healthy or energetic under such circumstances?
It is calculated that we eat from twice to three times as much as
we need. The excess spells disease. Therefore, a period of
starvation with the drinking of plenty of pure water until the body
weight is brought to normal will not decrease the strength or
energy, but will make you feel better, sleep better, be free of
dreams, think keener, will make you better able to compete with
your adversary; in short will make you "healthy, wealthy and
wise." Try it. Thereafter eat in accordance with your needs one
or two meals a day, chew very thoroughly what you have to, eat,
and you need not worry about disease, for you will have the
health God intended for you. God does not punish you with
disease, your ignorance and gluttony do that.

OXYGEN NECESSARY

The relation between the oxygen intake and the food intake is
also very important. The fatter we are, the less our breathing
space and the less the oxygen we take in, even with our deepest
breathing. The more air we breathe, the more the oxygen
supplied to the body cells and the less the accumulation of
unoxidized poisons in these cells to favor disease. When one
carries a normal body weight his breathing space is at its best and
the less is disease liable to take hold. It is an interesting
observation that a high percentage of cancer patients have rapidly
increased in their body weight for a year or so before the disease
gave evidence that it was active in them. Under-oxidation is a
pre-cancer condition. Please, take warning.

EXERCISE IMPORTANT

Exercise is the means of getting more oxygen into the system, of

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using up the material we eat and also of keeping the normal cell
mechanisms going. Be sure to take daily exercise in the open air
while fasting. Exercise is getting less and less convenient in our
modern daily programs. Cancer at the same time is on the
increase in like proportion. Our forefathers used their muscles,
ate natural foods, and were not in the nervous hurry that
interfered with mastication. They ate the foods that swept the
intestinal canal. They worked and walked and thus gave their
abdominal muscles occasion to massage the intestines, in fact
they lived more like normal animals and they developed cancer
less frequently, and then only at the retiring age when they ceased
to live normal active lives. So let us take the simple warning,
particularly since we have the scientific reasons and explanations
confirming the fact, that proper eating, breathing and exercise will
keep us free from cancer, in spite of any injury the body may
receive. The cancer germs can't get a foothold in a healthy cell.

DIET AND FOOD ESSENTIALS

The idea of the following prescribed diet is to nourish the patient

sufficiently, to maintain a normal blood alkalinity, and to feed
such materials only as are conductive to best digestive activities
and good bowel action and to avoid all irritants, stimulants and
substances toxic, that may, hamper the progress of normal
intracellular reactions.

In order to maintain life and health, foods must contain vitamins,

mineral salts, protein, fat, carbohydrates and water.

If our food is lacking in vitamins, deficiency diseases result, such

as neuritis, scurvy, rickets, paralysis. Some of these vitamins are
destroyed by heat. Therefore, some of the food must be eaten
raw. The foods rich in vitamins are the fresh fruits, the green
vegetables and the dairy products.

Our bodies contain 16 different mineral salts. If our food does

not supply these, disease results. The source of mineral salts is
fruits, green vegetables, the skins of fruits and tubers and the
germ and hulls of the cereals. Therefore, we must eat whole
cereals, eat the skins of fruit and vegetables, and save and drink
the pot liquor in which the green vegetables are cooked. Don't
throw any of it down the sink.

The protein requirement of adults is very small, therefore, but

little if any meat should be used. A pint of milk a day will give all
the protein that is needed. So do not pile up proteins by eating
meat, eggs, baked or stewed dried beans, and drinking milk at
the same meal. Too much protein tends to constipation, acidosis
and other forms of toxemia.

The carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and fats are energy and
heat foods. Starch and sugars should be used as they occur in
nature‑whole cereals and tubers, sweet dried fruits, unrefined
cane and maple sugar and honey. Fruits rich in fat are nuts,
alligator pears, peanuts and olives. These are wholesome. The
best animal fat is cream and butter.

DIET SUGGESTIONS

The following general diet suggestions are furnished patients who

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apply at the Koch Cancer Clinic for consultation and treatment.

(a) The diet should be bland‑No condiments, spices, strong

acids, alcohol, wines or citrus acid fruits, such‑as oranges,
lemons, grape fruit, tomatoes, food containing lactic acid (sour
milk or butter milk).

(b) The diet should below in protein, very little or no meat, fish,
eggs, dried beans or dried peas.

(c) No refined sugar, processed or emasculated cereals or foods

made therefrom such as white flour, processed corn meal or
breakfast foods should be used.

(d) Care should be exercised not to serve proteins (foods that

require acid digestion) at the same meal with starches (foods that
require an alkaline medium for digestion) or to serve at the same
meal starchy foods and fruit acids.

(e) The bowels should have two daily evacuations, use an enema
if there are not natural movements. May use mineral oil as a
laxative, but no cathartics.

(f) The diet should consist of fresh and cooked fruits: apples,
pears, sweet prunes, pineapples, mild acid berries in season and
melons: vegetables (green) such as lettuce, celery, cucumbers,
green peas, string beans, green corn, kale (avoid spinach and
cooked cabbage); tubers such as potatoes, carrots, turnips;
sweet milk and cream; porridge and bread from whole cereals.
For sweets use dates, figs, honey, maple syrup and brown sugar.

For persons suffering from the toxic symptoms that suggest the
presence of susceptibility to cancer infection, the following
detoxication and reconstruction diet is recommended.

FIRST WEEK

The diet should consist entirely of fruit juices, all the patient cares
for (from three pints to three quarts daily). Express the juice from
ripe fresh apples or pears. (Use a small cider press, or cut the
fruit into pieces, run through a meat grinder and express the juice
from this pulp mass.) Apples or pears may be stewed (peelings
left on) and the juice pressed out. Use no sugar in these juices.
The juice of two or three sweet, not sour oranges, may be used
each day. The juice from simmered small sweet, not sour prunes,
may be used. Watermelon may be chewed and the pulp rejected.
Pineapple may be stewed and the juice expressed. These juices
may be served singly or may be mixed, but on no condition is any
sugar to be added. The usual day's ration will be about one quart
of fruit juice and one quart of water. An enema is to be taken
twice daily, if bowels do not move daily twice normally.

SECOND WEEK

Drink one to two glasses a day of the fruit juices and one to two
pints of vegetable liquor. Vegetable liquors are made by cooking
with a fair amount of water, singularly or in combination, one or
more of the following green vegetables: celery, peas, string
beans, green corn, young carrots, small sweet white turnips.
Strain off the liquor and flavor with a little butter. A few potato
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peelings may be cooked with these vegetables. A good plan is to
chop all fine, or run through a meat grinder before cooking. A
mild onion may be cooked with the vegetables if desired.

The same requirement for daily bowel elimination as for the first
week. Under no condition should cathartics be used.

THIRD WEEK

Whole fruit and vegetables, either raw or cooked may be eaten.

The more raw food in proportion to cooked food used, the
better. Salads, vegetables and fruit puddings prepared as follows
may be eaten:

For salads, use lettuce, celery, chopped or grated carrots or

turnips (or both) and chopped apples, pears or pineapple. Use
no dressings. A large plate of this may be eaten daily.

The vegetable soup is made in the same manner as the vegetable

liquor for the second week, with the exception that less water is
used in cooking and the vegetables are now eaten and not
strained out. A pint or more may be eaten daily.

To make the fruit pudding, chop 1/4 pound of figs or dates and
1/4 pound of raisins fine and simmer over fire for a few minutes;
add to this three or four fair sized unpeeled apples cut up fine and
a little more water. Cook until the apples fall to pieces. Add no
sugar or flavoring material. This gives a delicious nutritious dish of
which a whole meal can be made. If desired, a few pecans
ground in the meat grinder, or an ounce of peanut butter mixed
with a little water to a cream maybe added to this pudding just
before removing it from the fire.

FOURTH WEEK

Milk, cream, cereals (whole) and chicken may be added to the

diet. The cereals should be eaten raw or cooked as porridge or
bread. Vegetable tubers such as turnips, beets, parsnips and
potatoes (baked or cooked with the jackets on) may be eaten.
Patients must remember that in thus enlarging the variety of foods
that can be eaten, the importance of eating raw fruits and
vegetables daily must not be overlooked. Remember that acid
fruits, or salads with an acid fruit dressing are not to be eaten at
the same meal with foods that are largely composed of starch.

FIFTH WEEK AND THEREAFTER

From now on almost any kind of wholesome food may be eaten

provided the general principles are observed. Never use fried
foods. Never eat burned foods. Always avoid acid forming
foods. Always eat generously of raw foods. Do not tolerate in
your diet bad mixtures. Be sure to select foods that will stimulate
alkaline metabolism.

All acids, spices, condiments, alcohol, cathartics; drugs of any

kind, depressants, stimulants, tonics, are absolutely prohibited.
Use no suppositories, no alcohol or Glycerine, either externally
nor internally. Coffee and cocoa should be eliminated. Do not
drink water containing a large amount of iron. For pain use hot
applications.
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By this time a daily habit of two to three bowel movements a day

should be established. If it has not been, keep up the enema or
use the daily washout by mouth. This consists in drinking rapidly
in succession six or more glasses of very warm water. Water
taken rapidly moves quickly through the stomach and small
intestines to the colon, and thus stimulates a normal evacuation.

It is a matter of common opinion due largely to false teaching in

our medical schools that a person would weaken and die under a
month's fasting. As a matter of fact this is not the case. On the
contrary fasting for a reasonable period of time from all food,
accompanied with the drinking of water and regular daily
exercise, preferably in the open sunshine, increases both the
endurance and the resistance.

A fast of seven to thirty days is not uncommonly prescribed by

progressive physicians. Fasting is not accompanied with any
sense of discomfort after about the third day. A reasonable fast
for persons who are overweight may be suggested from a study
of the following table of average weight. Persons who are much
under weight because of toxemia lose but little weight under full
fast, and often gain in weight under the detoxication diet outlined
above.

TABLE OF AVERAGE WEIGHT FOR VARYING

HEIGHTS AND AGES*
MALES
Age 15‑24 25‑24 35‑44
45‑54 55‑64
Height Weight Weight Weight
Weight Weight
5‑0 120 126 132
134 133
5‑2 124 130 134
138 137
5‑4 131 137 142
145 145
5‑6 138 144 149
152 153
5‑8 146 153 159
162 163
5‑10 154 162 169
172 173
6‑o 165 173 179
182 184
6‑2 176 186 193
195 193
FEMALES
5‑0 114 118 123
129 130
5‑2 116 122 129
137 136
5‑4 124 128 136
143 144
5‑6 130 137 144
152 152
5‑8 138 145 153
160 161
*This table is an abridged table made from the table of averages,
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complied by Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, of the Prudential Life
Insurance Company. His figures were based on the
measurements of over 74,000 male and nearly 69,000 female
applicants for life insurance. Therefore, they are presumably the
normal averages for healthy persons.

SUMMARY

The prevalence of cancer in its early stages, prior to the

appearance of the growth, is so great that we must again refer to
statistics and repeat some of the symptoms which show when
you have unhealthy cells liable to cancer infection if the infection
has not already taken place. It is in these early stages that the
disease can be prevented and completely eradicated by following
the advice given in the preceding pages.

The estimates of prominent statisticians place the annual death

rate from cancer in the United States at over 125,000 with an
annual increase of two percent. On this death rate, it is estimated
there are now in the United States, alone, at least 1,000,000
cancer cases demanding care and treatment, and several times
that many whose condition of health makes them potential cancer
victims. Baker estimates that 10 percent of the entire population
of England are suffering from cancer. This means that there is an
ever increasing number of persons whose pre-cancer condition
goes on unrecognized or is not diagnosed until a late stage of
cancer is manifest by the appearance of the growth.

Among the pregrowth symptoms which may be present for years

before a growth appears are attacks of headaches, or "bilious
spells;" attacks of dizziness with the sensation that everything is
going round and round; transient blind spells; blind spots before
the eyes which partially obscure the visual field and other visual
disturbances, such as flashes of light or inability to accommodate
vision to approaching objects. There may be moments of
temporary loss of equilibrium and severe headache with or
without ringing in the ears. Neuritis is a frequent pregrowth
symptom. The arm and shoulder group of muscles may be
affected or the sciatic nerve with resulting impairment in the use
of the leg. Other nerves may be the location of the pain which
may finally yield to a motor or sensory, paralysis of the affected
part. Mental derangement is, in a small percentage of the cases,
the most prominent pregrowth symptom. Epilepsy has been
noted to disappear when the growth developed.

Usually the detoxication procedure outlined above is sufficient to

stop the trouble, and the correct health measures recommended
should thereafter, be strictly followed.

Should these measures in any particular case prove insufficient,

we can be reasonably certain that the germ has gained entrance
to the tissues of the body and is there elaborating its poison. In
that case, a routine fast with plenty of pure water to drink, and
two colon irrigations daily must be followed until a natural
appetite for simple food is attained. By so doing the body will be
enabled to dispose of the excess of absorbed mal‑metabolized
food material that favors the development of the germ in the
tissues.

PREVENTIVE MEASURES MUST BE USED EARLY

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When the condition is already deep seated, these preventive

measures will not be sufficient. But in such cases there are usually
present other signs of the activity of the germ, such as
enlargement of the thyroid with symptoms of toxic goitre,
irregular pigmentation or loss of pigmentation, disturbances in the
cardiovascular functions, unnatural bleeding, impaired digestive
function, localized pain and tenderness, asymmetry of some part
of the body, jaundice or anemia.

If a growth is present, whether small or large, as the disease

develops it may break down in its center and ulcerate away, so
that as it spreads it increases in size at edge, while the center
becomes depressed. Any part of the body may be affected and
the growth may invade the neighboring tissues and new growths
may develop in distant parts of the body. It invades without
respect any tissue in its path, eats through blood vessels, lymph
channels and nerves. The involvement of nerves and the pressure
of the ever increasing growth cause pain. Passages may be
obstructed and bleeding and odorous discharges ooze or flow
from the eroded surfaces. Therefore, the presence of any of
these symptoms should be looked upon with suspicion.

Cancer is a progressive insidious disease. Considering the local

growth only, there might be some difficulty in distinguishing
cancer from the benign growth; only, however, while cancer is in
its early stages of development, before it becomes attached to
the surrounding structures, or before new lumps have developed.
Yet there is always the possibility of the so‑called benign growths
becoming cancerous or malignant, and thus they are potentially all
malignant and should be considered with suspicion.

When the growth stage is reached, there is little hope of

recovering health by the hygienic measures alone. Nor is there
any more than the most remote hope of obtaining a cure through
the removal of the growth. This fact is now admitted by the
leading medical authorities of both Europe and America. In the
British Medical Journal of Oct. 1923, we read: "Can there be
any doubt that in many respects the knife as a cure for cancer is a
ghastly failure," and the, president of the British Medical
Association in his book on Cancer and the Public says:
Nobody will pretend that surgery is the ideal method of
treating cancer and surgeons all the world over would
welcome some better and wholly different means of
dealing with it.

Sir James Paget acknowledges that surgery in the treatment of

cancer cannot even be given the, credit of prolonging life. He
says:
I am not aware of a single case of recovery, and as to the
influence of an operation in prolonging life; I believe that
the removal of the local lesion makes no material
difference in the average duration of life.

The experience of America's best known surgeon, Dr. Mayo, is

that, even under the most favorable circumstances for operation,
that is the early case, where the lump is small as a bean or
hickory nut and accessible as in the breast, the removal of the
whole breast does not prevent a recurrence. Dr. Kress quotes
Dr. Mayo thus:
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After amputation of a cancerous breast under the most
favorable circumstances, I believe that in 99 cases out of
100, the disease returns.

Dr. MacFarlan, Professor of Surgery at the University of

Glasgow, in giving his own experience in operating on such
cases, writes:
The operation never arrests, but uniformly accelerates the
progress of the disease.

Thus it is seen that the removal or non‑removal of the local

manifestation has no influence on the cure of the disease.

In these statements we have emphasized not only the failure of

surgery as a means of help, but the harm that may be done since
the operation often stimulates the disease and cuts down the
resistance of the natural defenses.

Nor is there any appreciable hope for benefit from the use of
radium or X‑ray. X‑ray was once, flaunted before the world as a
cure for cancer. It failed from the start. The earlier machines
were judged too weak. Then larger and more powerful machines
were invented and employed. At the present time the machines
are so very powerful that it has proven expedient to make the
number of treatments less and less frequent, less and less in
tense, and shorter and shorter, that the patient may have a better
chance to escape the terrible effects that sooner or later prove
fatal. At first the milder machines and treatments proved
ineffectual, and now the powerful machines and the drastic
treatments have likewise proven ineffectual, but the injury done
by such treatments are not only at times worse than the disease
itself, but have sometimes proven directly fatal.

At the last convention of the American Medical Association, the

discussion on the status of radium the most recent treatment of
cancer by a destructive method was summed up by Dr. Francis
Carter Wood, Vice President of the American Association for
the Control of Cancer, in the following words:
Radium will not cure cancer. It only destroys cancerous
tissue within a certain radius, but does not drive the
disease from the blood.

And regarding the serious danger connected with this substance

we have the report of Dr. F. S. Hoffman, on the death of five
girls who painted numerals on radiolight watch dials. These girls
had wet the brushes employed in their work with their lips,
carrying enough of the radium containing material to their lips to
cause "radium necrosis," "a peculiar and happily short‑lived
disease, that rotted tissues away, until death ensued." When one
considers the very infinitesimal amount of radium in this cheap
radiolight material being able to cause death by progress of an
uncheck able rotting away, or burning away of the tissues, is
there any surprise that the large doses of radium used
therapeutically may kill quickly or cause much suffering?

Even the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jan.

9, 1926) now admits that radium is a dangerous agent. It says:
The demonstrable cell‑destructive potency of radioactive
substances and the unsuspected latent effects that they
may initiate should serve as a vigorous warning to all who
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promote radioactivity as a therapeutic measure.

Surely these destructive agencies are as bad or even worse than

the disease. Nor are we disappointed that such local measures as
X‑ray, radium and surgery have proven ineffectual in coping with
a constitutional disease. We have no more right to expect a
prevention of the extension of the cancer process by such
measures than we have to expect them to prevent the infection
from taking hold of or entering the body at all.

Fortunately there are means of preventing the cancer germ from

continuing to exist in the body even after it has established itself in
the tissues of the body, and there are means of curing cancer
even after the growth has become well established and
widespread. Not only can cancer be prevented by constitutional
measures, but it, like other infectious diseases, can be cured by
chemotherapy. However, it is not in the province of this treatise
to discuss the cure of cancer. The theme assigned me was "The
Prevention of Cancer." I have outlined how the conditions
essential to cancer infection and the nutrition of the cancer
germ‑diseased cells and a vitiated blood‑‑can be prevented by a
regime of diet, exercise, and. elimination, the prerequisites of
normal metabolism, healthy cells and. cancer immunity.

The true nature of cancer has been explained. The method of

prevention has been indicated. The means are easy, convenient,
and inexpensive, and the reward in vigorous health and long life is
certainly worthwhile:

There is no longer a reasonable doubt that cancer will be a

disease of the past as soon as the public attains to a realization of
the facts herein presented.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE MEDICAL PRESS, INC.

Scientific Therapy and Practical Research, a monthly journal.

Cancer, its Function and Cure. Wm. F. Koch, Ph. D., M. D.
(Case Histories)
The Prevention of Cancer, Wm. F. Koch, M. D., with
Introduction by Orlando, Ducker, M. D.
Cancer and the Evolution of the Immunity Process, W F. Koch,
M. D., with Discussion by C. Everett Field,
M. D.,
Cancer, a Historical Sketch, Elnora C. Folkmar, M. D.; D. Soc.
Sci.

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