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It is believed by many that the pain incident to cancer is caused 
by the action of pus-producing micro-organisms, and we know 
when these micro-organisms are given by the mouth, in extra¬ 
alimentary and extra-pulmonary disease, specific antibodies are 
developed to them. 
Dr. Wright says: 
14. “Diabetes. —It must over and over again have suggested 
itself that diseases which are due to the faulty functioning of 
some organ, such as Graves’ disease and pancreatic diabetes, may 
ultimately be traced to bacterial infection. Countenance is given 
to this suggestion by such work as has recently been done in con¬ 
nection with vaccine therapy and diabetes. I may refer to a case 
of pancreatic diabetes which was treated by my colleague, Cap¬ 
tain S. R. Douglas, where the secretion of sugar and the symp¬ 
toms of the patient were found to vary with the patient’s resist¬ 
ance to a coliform bacillus which had been isolated in her feces. 
I may refer also to the interesting facts which Dr. McWatters is 
bringing forward in this discussion, in connection with the treat¬ 
ment of glycosuria by staphylococcus vaccine. I think you will 
see that this fact suggested that glycosuria and carbuncles, which 
we have always supposed to be related as cause and effect, may, 
perhaps, in some cases be merely two different manifestations of 
a staphylococcus infection.” 
There are many other extra-alimentary and extra-pulmonary 
diseases that are complicated with the streptococcus and staphylo¬ 
coccus and colon bacillus, but time and space forbid my going 
further into this discussion. The application of the principal is 
apparent. 
The opinion is fast gaining ground that practically all dis¬ 
eases will eventually be proved to be of bacterial origin, for cer¬ 
tain it is the number of diseases not known to be of bacterial 
origin is lessening gradually as new light is thrown upon them 
by the many investigators. 
There never was a cure of a severe disease without a reaction 
in the tissues setting in. Reaction is the antithesis to action. A 
