J()(i Beard, On the Occurrence of Dextro-rotatory Albumins in Organic Nature. 



tions. 1) The experiments confirm the truth of the biological and 

 embryological conclusions, that the cycle of animal life, even that 

 of such micro-organisms as Protozoa 10 ), is an antithetic alternation 

 of asexual and sexual generations, of such a nature that the 

 albumins of the asexual generation (dextro-rotatory) are the stereo- 

 chemical antitheses of those of the other or sexual generation (laevo- 

 rotatory). As I have pointed out elsewhere 11 ), the conditions are 

 reversed in plants 12 ). Here it is the asexual generation, which 

 possesses laevo-rotatory albumins and dextro-sugars. 2. All such 

 asexual generations of animals, including all malignant tumours, 

 are killed and pulled dow r n in the living state by the action of 

 active solutions of the pancreatic ferments, trypsin and amylopsin. 

 3. Since "Science is prevision" - to quote the words of Pasteur - 

 and because of certain facts known to me, certain other conclusions 

 may be drawn. As long ago as 1907 I stated 13 ), that the pan- 

 creatic ferments, trypsin and amylopsin, were the natural means 

 to be adopted for the cure of tuberculosis. This was confirmed 

 in a single case of tuberculosis of the bowel by Dr. Margaret 

 A. Cleaves 14 ), and in various forms of surgical tuberculosis by 

 Dr. W. Batzner 15 ). Since the latter has shown, that solutions of 

 trypsin do not inhibit the growth of cultures of tubercle-bacilli, 

 the favourable result in tuberculosis is seen to be due, as I had 

 long foreseen and foretold, to the use made by the leucocytes of 

 the ferments, trypsin and amylopsin, as weapons of attack. While 



10) Antithetic Alternation of Generations in Protozoa. In "The 

 Annals of Botany", V. 9, 1895, p. 44G 447 and p. 468, in the course of a paper 

 dealing with "The Phenomena of Reproduction in Animals and Plants", it will be 

 seen, that I recognised, and postulated, the occurrence of Antithetic Alternation in 

 the life-cycles of the unicellular organisms. In not the least brilliant of his memoirs 

 this was first demonstrated, in the case of Coccidium schub<rgi, by that zoological 

 genius, the late Fritz Schaudinn (vide Schaudinn, Fritz. Untersuchungen 

 iiber den Generationswechsel bei Coccidien, in : Zool. Jahrb., Abt. f. Anat., Vol. 13, 

 1900, p. 197). 



llj Beard, J. The Enzyme Treatment of Cancer, London, 1911, loc. cit., 

 p. 159. 



12) Therefore, in experiments nos VII & XIV, unlike the asexual generations 

 of animals, such as the "various undetermined flagellate micro-organisms" of ex- 

 periments nos. IV & VII, the "various undetermined 'swarm -spores' of plants" were 

 not killed and disintegrated, but continued to live, in the presence of active pan- 

 creatic ferments, trypsin and amylopsin. The undetermined "swarm-spores" of 

 experiments nos. VII and XIV were probably asexual organisms belonging to the 

 Confervoid division of the Green Algae, such as Ulothrix. 



13) Beard, J. ibid., p. 136-137. 



14) Cl eaves, Margaret A. The Physiological Action of the Pancreatic 

 Enzymes etc., in: Medical Record, June 1, 1907. 



15) Batzner, W. The Trypsin in: Treatment of Hurgical Tuberculosis. "The 

 Practitioner", January, 1913. p. 203 219, 6 plates. 



