120 THE PROTEOMORPHIC THEORY AND THE NEW MEDICINE 



tical property of any of the ingredients, but as a general response 

 to the proteins that chanced to be extracted along with sundry 

 inert constituents ; and still guided by the Proteomorphic 

 Theory I went on to predict that it would be possible to make 

 numberless extracts having precisely comparable therapeutic ac- 

 tion from altogether unrelated vegetable products that, in short, 

 any non-toxic protein would suffice, in a measure at any rate, 

 to take the place of the proteins under observation. I predicted 

 that it would be possible to stimulate a new response by intro- 

 ducing a new protein after the system had become immunized to 

 an earlier one. I further suggested that quantitative differences 

 would be found in the response to different proteins, in accord- 

 ance with the nearness or remoteness of the individual protein, 

 botanically speaking, to the proteins of ordinary foodstuffs. 



All of these prophecies have been abundantly substantiated 

 by experiences that now extend over a period of nearly twenty 

 months, fortified by my personal observation of more than one 

 hundred carefully studied cases in which clinical manifestations 

 were constantly checked by blood examinations ; and corrob- 

 orated by the experience of a body of representative physicians 

 in all parts of the United States. 



Under date of December 1, 1916, I issued a Monograph of 

 126 pages bearing the title The Proteal Treatment of Cancer and 

 Allied Conditions; A Practical Study of a New Therapeutic 

 Principle as Interpreted in the Light of the Proteomorphic 

 Theory. A portion of the contents of this Monograph is in- 

 corporated in the text of the present book and may there be con- 

 sulted in detail. Here I wish to quote from the Foreword a 

 few sentences that will suggest the confidence which enlarged 

 experience had inspired confidence which the yet wider experi- 

 ence of another fifteen months has abundantly fortified. On 

 December 1, 1916, then, I felt justified in making the following 

 emphatic estimate of results attained; which now, fifteen months 

 later, I reiterate with no less emphasis : 



"That proteals, properly administered, assuage the pain of 

 the cancer sufferer in a large proportion of cases; neutralize 

 malodor; stimulate the blood count and with it the manifesta- 

 tions of improved health and comfort ; and in a conspicuous pro- 

 portion of cases cause unmistakable modifications in the condi- 

 tion of the neoplasm itself, amounting frequently to marked 

 regression is scarcely more open to-day to dispute than that 

 digitalis stabilizes the heart beat, that quinine antagonizes the 

 plasmodium of malaria, or that mercury combats the germ of 

 syphilis. 



"There remains, however, a question as to the amount of ben- 

 efit that may be expected in any individual case; and the all- 



