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termine with accuracy the precise stage of advancement of any 

 given case, for the obvious reason that we cannot examine the 

 structure of the various organs even if quantitative tests of their 

 degree of involvement were available. A case that seems pro- 

 foundly cachectic, and even almost moribund, may in reality have 

 tissues less vitally involved than those of another case that has 

 been tangibly affected for a much briefer period and in which the 

 visible symptoms seem less alarming. 



Hence it occasionally happens that a case in which the most 

 optimistic estimate of a skilled observer would predict a very early 

 demise responds to the treatment with unexpected vigor and ral- 

 lies in a way which enthusiastic observers have not hesitated to 

 speak of as "almost miraculous." 



In a considerable number 'of instances, cases of this character 

 have gone on, under the Proteal treatment, to a stage of improve- 

 ment which may with validity be spoken of as clinical recovery. 

 Whether or not the conditions of bodily metabolism have been 

 permanently readjusted in such wise that the proliferation of mis- 

 placed cells will be prevented in future, must be left to the future 

 to decide. 



It may fairly be said, I think, that where a cancerous mass has 

 thus retrogressed under the Proteal treatment there is greater 

 inherent probability of non-recurrence than if it had disappeared 

 under local treatment or through surgical interference ; inasmuch 

 as an improved condition of general bodily metabolism is implied 

 in the results attained by the hypodermic method. 



When treatment consisting exclusively of hypodermic injection 

 into the tissue of the upper arm has resulted in the regression of a 

 tumor mass in the pelvis, no argument is required to show that 

 there has been profound modification of the condition of the body 

 fluids. It is perhaps permissible to hope that this modification 

 may have an element of permanency, or that it may be kept up 

 by occasional administration of the hypodermic remedy, and that 

 recurrence or metastasis of the localized cancerous mass will thus 

 be prevented. 



I repeat, that this is a matter for the future to decide. But I 

 would suggest also that every practitioner who has successfully 

 treated a case with Proteals should feel it incumbent upon him 

 to urge his patient to have a blood count made at intervals of 

 two or three months so long as he lives, and to submit himself 

 to a new course of treatment should the blood show the slightest 

 deviation from the standard. Doubtless it would be safer to take 

 an occasional course of the treatment whatever the blood condi- 

 tions. In any event, the treatment should not be discontinued for 

 a good many weeks after the disappearance of the neoplasm. 



That there should be most careful attention to the diet with 



