122 THE PROTEOMORPHIC THEORY AND THE NEW MEDICINE 



gested in the prediction above quoted that the non-specific pro- 

 tein method "must in future rank with serum therapy and vaccine 

 therapy if, indeed, it does not altogether outstrip or totally 

 supplant both these relatively new additions to the equipment of 

 the practical physician." 



The confidence that underlay this prediction had led me to 

 urge the use of the non-specific protein extracts in all manner 

 of toxaemias; and, as rapidly as opportunity offered, the matter 

 was put to practical tests, in my own practice, and through co- 

 operation with several hundred progressive physicians to whom 

 proteals were supplied from my experimental laboratory. As a 

 result, it has been demonstrated, within two years of the time 

 when the prophecy was made, that intestinal toxaemias, anaemias, 

 neurasthenias, rheumatoid conditions (including rheumatoid ar- 

 thritis), tuberculosis, asthma, and psoriasis fall within the scope 

 of the protein response no less than cancer, and there is no rea- 

 son to suppose that even this comprehensive list of maladies 

 exhausts the possibilities of the method. 



OTHER REMEDIAL USES OF THE PROTEALS 



The Monograph, though dealing primarily with cancer, made 

 explicit reference to these wider and, in the aggregate, more 

 important applications of Proteal Therapy, in part as follows : 



It remains to give brief consideration to sundry conditions of 

 the organism not characterized by the presence of malignant 

 neoplasms, but associated with organic maladjustments that make 

 possible the development of such neoplasms; and directly char- 

 acterized by proliferation of protoplasmic tissues in my judg- 

 ment comparable with cancer proper though not commonly 

 viewed in this light by physiologists or pathologists. 



I have in mind various conditions characterized by disturb- 

 ances of nutrition and assimilation that lead to abnormal growth 

 of cells in one region or another of the body, all evidencing 

 conditions of hyperplasia that had certain elements of "malig- 

 nancy," inasmuch as they are deleterious to the organism, though 

 varying enormously in the degree of their obnoxiousness. 

 Among these conditions are : ( 1 ) Anaemic obesity, in which law- 

 less adipose cells encroach on more useful tissues; (2) pernicious 

 anaemia and the lymphaemias and myelaemias, characterized by 

 hyperplasia of the blood-forming tissues; (3) glandular hyper- 

 trophy, as in goiter, thymus enlargement, and splenomegaly ; (4) 

 rheumatoid arthritis, characterized by hyperplasia of tissues as- 

 sociated with joints; (5) general arteriosclerosis, characterized 

 by hyperplasia of the tissues of the arterial walls ; (6) sundry 



