THE SCIENCE AND ART OF PROTEAL THERAPY 129 



not) usually show an exceptional sensitiveness, their bodies be- 

 coming malformed in the course of a few minutes or a half hour 

 even though showing normal appearance when the blood is first 

 drawn. The proportion of cells that take on the sea urchin 

 form should also be noted as giving a general impression of the 

 degree of abnormality. 



Sometimes it happens that under Proteal treatment the red 

 corpuscles show a very marked betterment in size and form, so 

 that there is notable increase in the bulk of these corpuscles in 

 the aggregate, although the actual number may be decreased. 

 An interesting illustration of this is shown by a case of cancer 

 of the stomach under treatment at my office, patient No. 543. 

 When first examined, before treatment, the blood of this patient 

 showed 4,900,000 red corpuscles, but the great majority of these 

 were mere fragments of normal corpuscles, distorted and mis- 

 shapen, three or four of them scarcely equaling the bulk of a 

 normal corpuscle. The haemoglobin index was only 60, and the 

 appearance of the patient was cachetic to the point of ghastliness. 

 The white cells numbered 13,000. 



After one week of treatment with Proteal No. 37 (chiefly pro- 

 teins of mustard seed, alfalfa seed, and alfalfa meal) there was 

 a very striking modification in the character of the red cor- 

 puscles, the dark fragments having disappeared in the main 

 and their place being taken by corpuscles of fairly normal size 

 and appearance. The numerical count, however, had dropped 

 to 4,364,000. Meantime the white cells had been reduced to 

 8,500. 



The haemoglobin index was now 75. 



At the end of the second week, 90 per cent, of the red cells 

 were normal in size and fairly regular in contour, except that a 

 good many were somewhat oval in shape. Many of the cells 

 were slightly fringed at the edges, and there were a few small 

 cells and a good many platelets. In general the red cells were 

 recorded as presenting an utterly different aspect from the field 

 of two weeks earlier a tremendous advance towards normality. 

 The total number, however, was only 4,120,000. The white cells 

 numbered 7,200. 



At the end of the third week there was farther advance in 

 the same direction as regards the quality of cells. 



At the end of the fourth week, this patient's red corpuscles 

 showed not more than 10 per cent, of the crenated and mis- 

 shapen corpuscles after standing two hours in the Toisson 

 fluid. A large proportion of the cells were full sized and fairly 

 normal in appearance. And the number had gone up again to 

 4,954,000. Meantime there had been a further decrease in the 

 white corpuscles, which now numbers 6,130. The haemoglobin 



