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Grams. 



Viola tricolor (flowers and leaves) 7.5 



Anthemis (leaves) 7.5 



Colocynth (fruit) ' 5.0 



Quassia (wood) 7.5 



Urtica dioica (whole plant except root) 6.0 



Rheum officinale (root) 7.5 



Hedge hyssop (whole plant except root) 7.5 



The working formula, as enunciated by Beebe, 

 follows in the article; but it is complex and involved, 

 and it would not be profitable to reproduce it here. 

 The product called Autolysin is a hydro-alcoholic- 

 saline emulsion, most of the alcohol being evapo- 

 rated before the emulsion is sealed in ampules. 

 Plantex is, when finished, a clear solution in a 

 hydrous glyco-alcoholic menstruum. 



These agents are recommended in the treatment 

 of cancer, and as auxiliary in the treatment of 

 cancer by the usual surgical method. It is con- 

 tended that daily administration both before and 

 after operation, as well as in inoperable cases, gives 

 much symptomatic relief, especially from pain, 

 odor, irritating and fetid discharge, and from blood 

 oozing from the neoplasm. It is not to be assumed 

 that these agents are proven to bear any specific 

 relationship to cancer as such; but it may well be 

 that the systemic secondary infection that is such 

 a factor in cancer may be antagonized by them. 



We don't know the cause of cancer, and any 

 treatment given in an effort to cure the disease is 

 necessarily empiric. This applies to all of the 

 prevalent methods as well as to the use of Plantex 

 or Autolysin. However, a large clinical literature 



