CHAPTER XIII 



THE AUXETIC ACTION OF CANCER SERUM THE IN- 

 DUCED DIVISIONS OF GRANULAR RED CELLS 

 THE AUXETIC ACTION OF "THE REMAINS OF 

 DEAD TISSUES," AND ITS AUGMENTATION BY 

 ATROPINE AND THE PRODUCTS OF PUTREFACTION 

 THE ISOLATION OF THE AUXETICS KREATIN 



AND XANTHIN DISCOVERY OF THE CAUSE OF 



THE CELL-PROLIFERATION OF HEALING 



COUNTING the granules of eosinophile leucocytes from 

 cancer patients, therefore, seemed to us to show that 

 the clue on which we were working was to some extent 

 correct. Judging from the comparison between the 

 number of granules contained in the cells of cancer 

 patients and those of other people, there appears to 

 be a reduction in cancer, and this reduction presumably 

 is due to the presence in the blood of some agent which 

 ^causes more proliferation than normal. It has been 

 pointed out that increased prolificity owing to excessive 

 absorption of a chemical agent makes cells divide by a 

 reduced number of chromosomes as seen in carcinoma 

 cells ; and now apparently other cells, such as the eosino- 

 phile leucocytes, have in that disease a slightly reduced 



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