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noted that some time ago Bashford and Murray showed 

 that serum had the power of restraining the growth of 

 secondary transplanted tumours in mice. 



In addition to the restraining action of serum 

 on the cause of cell-division, we also considered 

 the work of Gaylord and Clowes of the New York 

 State Cancer Research, Buffalo, and of Bashford and 

 his assistants at the Imperial Cancer Research in 

 London, who have shown experimentally that the 

 transplantation of living growths in mice protect them 

 to some extent against cancer. It was considered 

 possible that this might be due to the fresh augmented 

 auxetic produced by the transplanted growths giving 

 rise to an increase in the content of the restraining 

 body. We therefore resolved to try to increase this 

 body in cancer patients by deliberately injecting them 

 with augmented auxetic combined with blood-serum. 

 The way the combination was administered was by 

 injecting 6 ounces of defibrinated sheep's blood per 

 rectum every morning. The serum contains the re- 

 straining body, and it was argued that the red cells 

 would be destroyed in the rectum, the haemoglobin 

 decomposed, and in time the globin would become 

 augmented by the action of the bacteria present. It 

 was presumed that the restraining body of the serum, 

 the auxetic in the globin and in the remains of the 

 white cells, and lastly, the products of the decompo- 

 sition would be gradually absorbed, and that they might 

 raise the content of restraining body in the patients ; in 

 other words they might act as a sort of vaccine. 



We must admit that we were not very sanguine of 



