CHAPTER XVI 



THE AUGMENTED DIVISIONS INDUCED BY PUTREFACTION 

 OF THE EXTRACTS ARE DUE TO THE ALKALOIDS OF 



PUTREFACTION A THEORY THAT CARCINOMA AND 



LYMPHADENOMA MAY BE CAUSED BY THE MIX- 

 TURE OF THE AUXETICS OF CELL-PROLIFERATION 

 WITH CHOLINE OR CADAVERINE AN EXPLANA- 

 TION OF THE AGE-INCIDENCE, METASTASES, AND 



OTHER FACTS KNOWN CONCERNING CANCER THE 



NECESSITY FOR A CRUCIAL EXPERIMENT TO PROVE 

 THE THEORY 



IN Chapter IX. it was pointed out that there is an 

 intimate association between "chronic irritation" and 

 the onset of cancer. As just shown, "irritation" means 

 cell-death, and cell-death is followed by cell-prolifera- 

 tion. When a tissue is the seat of chronic irritation, 

 the cell-proliferation of healing must be going on in the 

 damaged site owing to the presence of the remains of 

 the dead cells. The proliferation occasioned by irrita- 

 tion is in reality due to the auxetics, some of which are 

 kreatin, xanthin, and that contained in globin, which 

 are set free by the death of some of the cells. This 

 will explain why an ill-fitting boot will give rise to 



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