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If we summarize the above table, and condense the findings 

 into a single table aggregating total results, we have the 

 following : 



Total number of physicians, 144, residing in 37 states and in 

 several provinces of Canada; including 63 members of the 

 American Medical Association and 29 other physicians who are 

 members of State Medical Associations. 



Total number of cases treated, 284; of which 209 were carci- 

 nomas, 52 epitheliomas, and 17 sarcomas, 6 being unclassified. 



General results of treatment: 



(1) Died, 43, or 15.2 per cent, of the total cases. 



(2) Unimproved, 60 (21 deteriorated and 39 unchanged), or 

 21.3 per cent, of total cases. 



(3) Improved, 179, or 63.1 per cent. 



(4) Of favorable prognosis, out of danger, or clinically well, 

 48, or 16.2 per cent, of total cases. 



(5) Unclassified as to general resuks, two cases. 



Results as to special symptoms: 



(1) Pain present in 221 cases; favorably modified by treat- 

 ment in 171 cases, or 77.4 per cent. 



(2) Offensive discharge, present in 111 cases; favorably 

 modified in 96 cases, or 85.6 per cent. 



(3) General health of patient: Seemingly uninfluenced by 

 treatment in 77 cases ; favorably modified as to appetite, sleeping, 

 color, weight or strength in 180 cases, or 70 per cent. 



(4) Mental attitude: Seemingly uninfluenced in 74 cases; 

 favorably modified in 180 cases, or 71 per cent. 



(5) Condition of the neoplasm: Seemingly uninfluenced in 

 79 cases, or 27.8 per cent. ; favorably modified in 171, or 60 

 marked regression in size in 76 cases, or 26.8 per cent. 



Dealing, as the statistics do, with supposedly hopeless cases, 

 in the presence of which the physician has hitherto stood power- 

 less, and with symptoms mostly not susceptible of amelioration 

 by any agency hitherto available, this is a showing that is amazing 

 and enheartening. 



In- the period of thirty -months that has elapsed * since the 

 reports thus tabulated were received, I have been constantly in 

 touch with a considerable number of physicians who 'have used 

 the Proteals in the treatment of inoperable cancer. Their reports 

 have come in the form usually \}f personal letters, letters not de- 

 signed in any case for publication, and for the most part written 

 in the interest of the individual patient, asking advice as to some 

 detail of treatment very commonly, and containing expressions 

 of opinion as to the progress of the case of precisely the character 

 a practitioner would make in seeking the advice of a special con- 

 sultant. 



