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dous premium on early treatment. Proteal remedies have indeed 

 proved capable of giving, solace in extraordinary measure to late 

 stage inoperable cases of the most hopeless type; but the full 

 measure of what may be expected of the new treatment can be 

 gauged only when the Proteals have been administered to a large 

 number of cases at an earlier stage of development. 



SECTION XI 

 THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF CANCER 



If the essential thesis of this paper as to the nature of cancer 

 is accepted, and it is further accepted that the administration of 

 vegetable proteins hypodermically tends to stimulate the enzymes 

 capable of protein hydrolysis, certain practical suggestions as to 

 the prevention of cancer; as to possible cure of the cancerous 

 condition ; and as to the obviation of its recurrence, follow almost 

 as matters of course. 



Since, however, things that seem obvious after one has devoted 

 much thought to a subject are not always quite so plain to those 

 who have thought along different lines, perhaps it may not be 

 amiss to present here, partly by way of summary and recapitula- 

 tion, a brief practical discussion of the prevention and the pos- 

 sible cure of the condition which I have characterized as hyper- 

 proteomorphism, with particular reference to that phase of the 

 condition characterized by the presence of a malignant neoplasm 

 or true cancer. 



As to prevention, I shall speak only in the briefest terms. 

 Whatever tends to maintain the general good health, keep the 

 blood count normal, promote the normal digestion and nutrition, 

 and keep the muscles (including those of the arterial walls) plas- 

 tic, tends to ward off the cancerous condition. 



No single expedient, in my judgment, is more important than 

 habitual and vigorous exercise, particularly for persons in middle 

 life and (modified in intensity) in old age. Keep the muscular 

 system in really vigorous condition ; avoid excess proteins in the 

 food, in particular animal proteins ; drink plenty of water ; avoid 

 all sources of general systemic irritation as well as local irritation, 

 and there is at least a large measure of probability that the can- 

 cerous condition will never develop. 



Once it has developed, however, and in particular when it has 

 formed a local neoplasm of the type that we term epithelioma, 

 carcinoma, or sarcoma, as the case may be, is there a possibility 

 of a cure of the condition? 



