124 THE PROTEOMORPHIC THEORY AND THE NEW MEDICINE 



mia, I cannot do better than to quote a letter received not long 

 ago from a physician in Michigan, which is self-explanatory. 



"I have been using vegetable proteins in a late stage of per- 

 nicious ansemia on purely theoretical grounds. After ten injec- 

 tions have found an increase of over 15 per cent, in the red 

 cells with an accompanying favorable alteration in the differential 

 leucocyte count, and have noted nucleated red cells for the first 

 time since the treatment was begun. 



"The patient, a man over 50 years of age, carpenter by trade, 

 is without means, having been unable to work for over 18 

 months. I ordered the remedy for him on my own responsi- 

 bility, having become familiar with the product through using 

 it in a supposedly hopeless case of carcinoma of the liver, sec- 

 ondary to gall bladder carcinoma in my wife's mother. Gall 

 bladder and neighboring involved liver were removed and re- 

 ported by pathologist at University of Michigan as carcinoma, 

 and a hopeless prognosis given." 



Vegetable protein treatment was undertaken, and continued 

 between three and four months ; after which, according to the 

 report : 



"The patient is in better flesh than ever before, is well and 

 comfortable in every way, and the right lobe of liver, which is 

 low, feels perfectly smooth and healthy." 



It will be observed that this letter has double interest, inas- 

 much as it bears on the question of the value of combined pro- 

 teins in the treatment of a "supposedly hopeless case of carci- 

 noma of the liver," as well as on the question of its value in the 

 treatment of pernicious anaemia. It is, however, only the lat- 

 ter point that is at the moment pertinent. I shall not elaborate 

 the point, however, beyond stating that a letter from the same 

 physician received several weeks later confirms the observation 

 that the condition of this patient is benefited by the treatment. 

 Obviously this is no more than might be expected of the admin- 

 istration of a remedy which has been observed in a very large 

 number of cases to produce striking and beneficial modifications 

 of the blood count. 



A further report on the progress of this case comes to hand 

 in a still more recent letter bearing date of October 19, 1916, 

 telling of the resumption of the treatment after a considerable 

 intermission. 



"The pernicious anaemia case has shown a remarkable change 

 for the better since using last package of ampules. This patient, 

 a county case, was in a somnolent condition, and in fact had been 

 removed from ward to private room to die. He is now bright, 

 has lost all the general cedema, eats well, and wishes to be up 

 and around." 



