CANCER 135 



It is a condition necessary to conduction that the cell be 

 structurally perfect, for if its insulation is impaired it cannot 

 receive or impart charge ; it can only become electrified. 



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Let us suppose cells A, B, and C to be in a complete 

 and D in an incomplete condition and the charge or impulse 

 to be in the direction of the arrow, i.e., efferent. 



The charge received by cell C, from the cell B (to the 

 left) could only be diffused in the mass of D, and thence 

 be dissipated along the path of least resistance. 



For it to be imparted to another cell {E to the right of 

 D) the latter must be structurally perfect. It may be 

 argued that with the exoplasm intact the cell would in any 

 case attain completion and survive, and upon that argument 

 much depends. 



To ponder the matter upon the lines of the theory I am 

 about to advance it is necessary to assume that the pre- 

 cancerous condition is inflammatory in character, that 

 local insulation is broken down by a local rise of tempera- 

 ture or there is some injury which has produced an analogous 

 effect. 



As an inevitable consequence there is — there must be — 

 an escape of nerve -current into wet tissue and an augmented 

 neuro-electrical stimulus from that point along the path 

 of least resistance to air and earth. 



I am inclined to the belief that under such additional 

 stimulus cell division in the area affected is forced to such 

 an extent that a number of centrosomes are formed in certain 

 cells and multiple division brought about, in which no 

 process arrives at completion. Moreover, it is possible 

 and even probable that D, and other cells to the right of 

 it, would perish and with a similar fate overtaking other 



