184 THE PROTEOMORPHIC THEORY AND THE NEW MEDICINE 



Proteals is exceedingly limited. Early in the year 1916 I received 

 a letter from a physician who said that another California physi- 

 cian, a friend of his, having read an article of mine with ref- 

 erence to Non-specific Therapy had prepared and used the pro- 

 teins of white of egg in treatment of his wife, who had asthma, 

 with seemingly curative effect. I stated this fact to various 

 physicians in the course of my lecture tour in the West during 

 the summer of 1917, adding that there are some theoretical grounds 

 for supposing that the use of the Proteals might be advan- 

 tageous ; notably, the fact that some physicians associate the 

 asthmatic tendency with the rheumatoid condition, and that there 

 is a certain amount of evidence associating asthma with protein 

 infections, as in those cases that are susceptible to horse serum. 

 The fact that the blood in many cases of asthma shows a 

 pronounced increase of eosinophiles, if interpreted in the light 

 of my own theories as the functions of this type of leucocyte, 

 is corroborative of the idea of protein infection; the invasion 

 being, according to my interpretation, conspicuously an invasion 

 of unbroken protein molecules. Further suggestions along the 

 same line are to be found in the obvious fact that bronchial 

 asthma is itself allied to the spasm characteristic of acute ana- 

 phylactic shock from the introduction of a foreign protein into 

 a vein, detailed reference to which was made in an earlier chap- 

 ter of the present work. 



Partly at least in response to my suggestions, a number of 

 physicians have administered the Proteals to patients suffering 

 from asthma, and the few reports that have come from them 

 have been of the most encouraging and gratifying character. 

 My brother, Dr. E. H. Williams, of Los Angeles, California, 

 who has had very wide experience in the use of the Proteals 

 in various affections, reports two cases of asthma that have 

 yielded to the treatment and have reached a stage of seeming 

 cure. The most spectacular case hitherto reported, however, is 

 that of a patient in a city of the Northwest (Oregon), a dentist, 

 who was subject to attacks of such severity that he had been 

 obliged to discontinue practice of his profession. 



Treatment consisted of the administration on alternate days 

 of five minims of Proteal No. 45, containing in equal parts the 

 proteins of alfalfa seed, alfalfa meal, and millet seed. 



In reporting this case, the physician, who had had consider- 

 able prior experience with the Proteals from my laboratory and 

 with whom I had seen a case of rheumatoid arthritis in consul- 

 tation a few months earlier, wrote as follows, under date of 

 November 8, 1917: 



"I have a very severe case of bronchial asthma to which I have 

 administered two doses of No. 45 with immediate and pro- 



