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or a mild intestinal toxaemia would not submit to a treatment 

 that involved the production of a severe anaphylactic reaction. 

 In such a case the remedy would be considered worse than the 

 disease. Fortunately nothing of the kind is either necessary or 

 desirable. Such a patient undergoing Proteal treatment submits 

 to nothing more disagreeable than a painless hypodermic, fol- 

 lowed at worst by a very slight tenderness at the point of injec- 

 tion, and with no general reaction whatever except the pleasurable 

 one of increased bouyancy and enhanced sense of well being. 



Such, then, are the essentials of the technique of Proteal ther- 

 apy at present developed. I greatly mistake if the method does 

 not constitute a marked advance upon any therapeutic measure 

 hitherto available for treatment of the varied groups of con- 

 ditions of disturbed protein metabolism ranging from simple 

 anaemias to tuberculosis and cancer to which it is applicable. 



Let us now turn from generalities to particulars and consider 

 very briefly the salient aspects of the application of the Proteal 

 method to the different types of protein toxaemia in question. 



PROTEAL TREATMENT OF CANCER 



The reader is aware that the fundamental fact upon which 

 Proteal therapy is based is that the parenteral administration 

 of a foreign protein in suitable doses leads to a systemic response 

 characterized by rejuvenation of the blood corpuscles. The indi- 

 rect result of such rejuvenation is, in effect, the enhancement 

 of the phagocytic and enzymic forces with which the body com- 

 bats protein invasion of all kind. This includes, obviously, cells 

 of the type called malignant. 



Incidentally, therefore, Proteal therapy is applicable in the 

 treatment of cancer. As I have written another book on this 

 aspect of the subject, I shall here summarize my experience in 

 this field very briefly. In so doing, perhaps, I may be permitted 

 to incorporate matter from a popular article in which I gave a 

 condensed account of my experience. Possibly the present 

 reader, sated with technicalities of recent pages, will find this 

 popular summary a refreshing change. The reader who wishes 

 fuller and more technical information as to the status of the 

 Proteal treatment of cancer may turn to the Monograph just re- 

 ferred to, which under the original title of The Proteal Treatment 

 of Cancer and Allied Conditions, is about to be issued in a sec- 

 ond edition. 



The condensed popular presentation which, taken in connec- 

 tion with repeated references in other chapters, seems fairly 

 adequate for the present purpose, is the following: 



Wherever the cancerous condition develops there is always pro- 



