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Show Can Crtucer Be Cured P Tho most debated question In European Euro-pean medical circles today Is tho theory of cancor advocated by Dr. Doyen, tho celebrated French surgeon. An interview, inter-view, recorded by Frederic Lees In Tho Booklovers Magazine. Is tho first authoritative authori-tative statement of Dr. Doyen's romnrk-able romnrk-able achievements, and Is full of unique Interest. Dr. Doyon clnlms to havo discovered dis-covered tho specific bacillus of cancer nnd to have compounded a specific serum for Its destruction. Whether Dr. Doyen's contentions prove sound or not his statements will command tho most 'inter- ' cstcd nnd respectful attention. Tho doctors doc-tors claims havo been under the close scrutiny of a committee of colebrated French surgeons, and tholr report has been favorable so far. Dr. Doyen bec-an his Investigations twenty-five years aro "I had frequontly tried Interstitial Injections In-jections of solutions of lactic acid chlor-ldo chlor-ldo of zinc, and various other antlscntlcq but unsuccessfully. This fnlluro and tho fn8V2 ,f nV st,,dl,cs ffcnerally led mo. In 1SSS, to try vaccination by a method similar to that used In peripneumonia, a method In which tho virus of n fresh ncr-lpnoumonie ncr-lpnoumonie lung Is Introduced at the root of tho tail of healthy animals. Tho nn-tlenta nn-tlenta upon whom I experimented had been attacked by cancor for the third or fourth time, that Is to say woro doomed so my exporlments were at least Inoffensive. Inof-fensive. But I did not obtain nny result worthy of Interest, for tho fragments of tumors Inserted under the skin wero reabsorbed. re-absorbed. It was In following up this Idea of vaccination against recurrence of tho disease after oporatlon In tho samo way as Pasteur when he showed the nos-slblllty nos-slblllty of curing people bitten by mad dogs by successive Injections of rabid virus, vi-rus, first of all very weak and then In increasingly in-creasingly strong doaes that I started in 1001 to vaccinate ngnlnst cancer with tox-incs tox-incs and vaccines from cultures of micrococcus micro-coccus nooformnns." Tho method of vaccination, vac-cination, Dr. Doyen claims, "bestows I'm munlty slowly, and Its effect lasts for soveral years." Periodical vaccination for .several years may, therefore, answer In tho affirmative tho question, "Can enn cor bo cured?" cnn |