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an offensive discharge was present, it was favorably modified 

 in 85.6 per cent, of cases. The general health of the patient 

 was modified as to appetite, sleep, color, weight, or strength in 

 70 per cent, of cases. Mental attitude was favorably modified 

 in 71 per cent, of cases. The condition of the cancer mass itself 

 was favorably modified in 69 per cent, of cases, with marked 

 regression in size in 27 per cent. 



In reporting these results to a professional audience, I added 

 this comment: "Dealing, as the statistics do, with supposedly 

 hopeless cases, in the presence of which the physician has hith- 

 erto stood powerless, and with symptoms mostly not susceptible 

 of amelioration by any agency hitherto available, this is a showing 

 at once amazing and enheartening." 



A few months later I was able to establish the important 

 new principle that it is not possible to get cumulative and opti- 

 mum results from the use of a single protein or combination of 

 proteins, inasmuch as the system develops a degree of immuniza- 

 tion. It was found that a case that had become static, after 

 a period of progress, might take on a new response when a 

 new type of protein was administered. This principle has been 

 borne constantly in mind in my personal use of the Proteal treat- 

 ment, and I have inculcated it persistently in advising with asso- 

 ciated physicians. Perhaps it will be of interest to reproduce 

 here a brief history of the patient upon whom the experience of 

 shifting from one type of protein to another was first made : 



Case of Mrs. V. Cancer of the left breast removed by sur- 

 geon in September, 1915. Recurrence above the clavicle and 

 about the neck ; pronounced inoperable. Non-specific protein 

 treatment (hypodermically into the upper arm) begun in Sep- 

 tember, 1915. Striking modification of the blood, steady im- 

 provement of general condition, and fairly rapid regression of 

 the cancerous mass. In June, 1916, only a few small enlarge- 

 ments remained, but these appeared to be static. A new Proteal, 

 extracted from alfalfa seed, was administered, and the masses 

 at once regressed, until only a single gland, as large as the little 

 finger-nail, was observable just above the clavicle. This was 

 excised with local anaesthesia, the incision healing promptly. 

 Occasional doses of Proteal were given at lengthening intervals, 

 and the patient is still under observation ; but she has been to all 

 appearance perfectly well for the past eighteen months. She 

 is of normal weight and appearance; does housework energeti- 

 cally; reports herself as feeling as well and as strong as ever 

 in her life. This, it will be observed, two years after the case 

 had been pronounced hopeless by the surgeons, the diagnosis 

 of cancer of malignant type having been confirmed with the 

 microscope. 



