| Show r rI 1 I ARMY Of MIGE fOR I h CURE Of CANCER GANGER 1 m 1 fj Science Working on Tiny h Rodents in Hope of Conquer Conquering ing Dread Disease M A WONDERFUL EXPERIMENT f I 1 11 w 4 y May One Olle Great Debt TIbt or of Grat J 1 1 limb to r b 1 Pests 10 k Special Correspondence i I d dONDON ONDON Nov 0 8 Mice lIco are aro nt at R a I I premium In iii London Ju just t now 1101 yi There Is OliO p kICA rP Upwards s i ti I I f kt ot of 0 of the till tiny rodents nr ore kept In Ia stock An And I still the cr cry is III far tor moro more Is the headquarters of DC the Iho cancer research fund which I is established In III n 11 large bull ti adjoining the tho SIlVO Savoy and Mt Cecil oell hotels on i t the Thames embankment with which j jall nil all visitors to lire are familiar 0 This The porter pester a at t the et n ra or n t lino f r building has never been known to turn turna a mou mouse o sway Anything in hI the tho mouse w fr line from th the J wild fluid field creature unused 10 o 01 city ways nII to tb tin sleek white so t varlet variety I Is acceptable at the tho research buildIng It Ir you OU happen to tobo tobe bo be broke and allu want 10 cents all you yet Y have to do Is to 10 catch a mouse and take him up to the tho hotel In Invariably variably you can milk make a sale lIle No milt mat mattar tar ter how ninny take you OU the r market 1 open There Is I a dime waiting for or every ory or of a mouse 1 y who w ho h wishes to dispose or of hIs property MOST NOXIOUS lF TB Up to this time the ordinary mouse moun has been n a mere pest au s enemy to mankind At last however l fit mice hues have been to an honored pineo In tM the In animal 1 world Without r mIce modern would know f practically nothing about that deadly rt foe tOI to the human DurIng the lat few y years ars however It since huts turned u Its attention 1 rEsearch Into the history r or of Ian cancer fr hiss hns progressed t 11 leaps hounds It is 19 not too much to predict I t 11 that before beCore many yearn mc medical lc 1 knowl knowledge edge wilt will have hat extended to lute tho mn ler lerot 1 t ot of cancer just as IS Itt Its knowledge o of ty diphtheria has rendered that once dreadful plague practically harmless jt When we consider that tilt Ilse material for CAncer research Is III supplied entirely by Juice Ih the race ow owes s the mouse a debt of r the d deepest pl t gratitude If eel t sacs Is III able to 10 isolate canner cancer and final Iy care It through thE agency or of the r mouse should combine t to It a statue to th thus genus mouse We 0 t I It have statues to dogs dore ant and rot to 10 mites mIce 1 ONLY ANIMAL Strange tf ty say the tha mou mouse t lilts has proved the only capable ot of serving in III I Ithe the search for tor the tho cause anti cure curf oC ct cancer GuineA pigs pia rabbits dogs kin t lens en and all outer animals w o often r It III t to II a remedy for Cor deadly diseases have II ut utterlY r terlY failed to yIeld r utts auta 11 1 t Ian saucer er It WAS nt at this point Int s when Ih the world of I was lIS ally lit that th the ml rains raiN for r rard card ard and immolated on the I alter tit of th viI 1 I t sectorS table aide t tI I have Jut just paid a to In the Lu Lo s I don laboratory ot of the Imperia c rte II r research tumid aol and saw from COO to t J mice each on or of hart had u cancer tn n some forum Corm or nt I Mi II e Ifie for 1 a sery ery long Inns Oil HI the tho sL 1 treatment ami All mm o J I h have halt had cancer y rO rero 1 er It Is on h tl fact fot that the tho hope bope of at mitt ItI con call 1 1 N coiner rests ral Wh t ala aln t mice with virulent anti undoubted can It i 1 car eer get well ell I Is th the problem which sat lid ace enee I is wrestling with today Mk lleo e by Y I I the thousand are ure be being enl and treated with ertain and r perhaps Ps some dy day 1 In the no not distant L t future one no of at the doctors will hit Ul upon j I Ia i 1 a form torm or of treatment will 11 enable mice to recover with Rn and hi then thin tho human rare race will b be rid ot of one OM y r t of the Worst Which today louny Dt af I I frets Ceel humanity humont 0 m AS LESS SS TASK t then hen It was M first proposed to cot COli s oJ f duct n systematic Into il tb c and aad cute tUN ot of cancer the Iho Jre H t ti 1 itt A 1 r yi r Y Q Jt cal CIlI rote glon co that the task VM 1113 Un an almost ho s one So manY mallY were In th tb roo ro search carch so o many well l h wera ot of opinion n thu caner cancer was sva un that tIO thO work ap appeared In Insurmountable dUll 4 years ears ago tio tha Im i cancer re fund was with P 4 KinK King Edward as patron atron the thO Prince ot of Wah ns its the vice I and ot o thu ho society were Lori Lord Lorel ex cx PremIer Sir WIlliam Broad Broadbent road bent William Astor Antol the late Belt Lord the thu Duke k of at yealth ond nId with such Huch behind them the concer wro S lOIT IbIO tl I t were fitted up UI some somo ot of 4 the tho ablo abl t scientists t tho Lb day dilY l In the work un tin under p der the or Dr I 1 F 3 I 1 who had fr i to rel arch rOUND FOUND SULT t tr Dr H had not long been on In hi belore hi he het t found that the tho beet results veru INO ob lulled from mice and lie he I with those on II 1 scale 1 In wor work or of this 4 ter It was not in the whole building wore I Ait i mol so 80 to peak All the rooms room In the place con can ii r and hugo cans Cult tull 4 j ot I live mice InIve Ihl between tho rooms RIm ni ills hallways are ure lined ot van vany y ous kind The ot of the Iha are aro 1 In small boxes boxe hut but the tho 1111 lieu mil tire lire Ut tho These mice f ore are such high Jumpers IntI so clover devor at theIr way out Jut lit of nil all ordinary that It has hall beOn esary to 10 them k In these deep I cans under I handful of at hay hayI I placed In the bottom they may have freedom r edom until out for operation 1 o 0 TABLE 1110 operating rOOI rooms ot the tho un 1 oc CliP culty several rooms together on the top ot of the tho building hero OLI 01 may see Beo mice very ery lay Ilay stretched out outon oUton on the tho operating lab table undergoing van arl r oils 1119 nt with cancer cancerI I research It cannot be said ald that the i work Is hut so Intent are the tio scientists on the tho objects itt In ul discovery covery or of the cause caule and It of at n a terrible the they their operations with n a method metho methodI lent lock ot of that even the tho thenice I r nice mice themselves ves not fail to all ad loire mira It If they lulU It va about 1 The first oj connected with 4 cancer work h hi to Implant In a healthy mouse the living cells O ot cancer This 4 5 Is done h by n a hypodermic needle E i Thu Tho mouse to 10 he treated hi b by bythe the hack ot of lIeck dud with it a swift the tho experimenter hIm hIman himan an Injection ot of canner It hoes not take tako very Iry long after the tho first Injection i for tor the cancer to and you see ee thousands ot of mice about each J One of oC has II a cancer rancel more or less leH Irom Frn tUne to time mice with cancer are with certain L 4 fluids taken tram front the bodies of at other 3 inoculated mice 1111 lilt O oe mice wIth actually At other times certain ml mire aro Injected before 4 these then whon they thoy are given gln the cancer It 1108 mas been found that the tho disease will vill hot t take a Ice roo root roote t e I It Is by the dl discovery co r ot of some pro l that the scientists hope to te achieve sue em All s soon as some ome somebody body bolly fluid Is b found which will hue have tin the same erect on nit cancer growth as anti 4 toxin hue hM on diphtheria the tho mastery ot of i cancer cancel will have hao proved an pUshed tact fact ot of what has hall been done In time tho field 0 of cancer research Dr kc lIa showing mu mo oVer time tho laboratory scud Enid Recovery from ex cancer Growth stops slop and tumors disappear pear fly By tol tal toll lowIng up investigations Indicated tact year ear It has hils been to 10 protect mice rom coma all the ot of In l them cancer hM has been done lono in III tour Caul ways Pro Prop p Tummy bo be conferred In so 80 high n a nd at ap t d degree gree that wheres out or of ordinary p mice 90 O develop tumors after aUer I In time tho protected mimico no tumors t nt nit nil developed The Tho protecting 9 r I acts b by wa a of at time the body hody fluids t Ind nd the tho bodY ot of some protected j mice when Injected Into inic with ex cx y L cancer retarded the tho growth ot of tumors I I When asked It If ho was able to cure curo cancer enner definitely Dr that the study of at the tho meth methods of at pro protection f were still In and Ind pointed out that all hI ii had f so tar far was to render healthy health mice unsuitable for tor the tho growth of at ox cx i p cancer 1 It iti Is not yet possible continued the tho tr 1 to thu tho progress ot of th the experimental tumors with certainty tar less to effect the Ille cure curo ot of the dis calm occurring naturally 11 Ia I the rc results ot of our experiments contrast t with the complete failure ot of nil the tho empirical remedies for tor forwarded I warded to the laboratory to be tested 1 they require to bo be carried tar far tarther I timer ther It can bo be ascertained If they 1 wilt have n a heRring bearing on Chit Iho t ot of the disease In mankind it Mac 18 long thought th t cancer was 4 a disease to man hut but It Is now w proved that there thore Is scarcely n a verte brute brato animal without It races were weN 1011 long to ho trIo free from I cancer Now however that Ij worthy blurts are aro sent Itt III to the mencer researchers It Is mown that tha t races and all 1111 animals cancer quite quill a as I freely IK as living under civilized lion II one ot of time the nr first t eases a cs brought under Dr lM titan 1 was that of at I a cancer tn In n a wild VIlli t j mouse and malignant cancers have hav boon found In birds as 1111 well ilK 14 11 1 trout In hatcheries tromP i carp It fish h 11 in I ItI a 4 tI to or of nature cancers have hlo been taken Bin HIn nn an oyster olIer has hils loen boen with a tumor Dr William round found cancer In coil fish lIh oft time the banks even een have hao been discovered l with It of It me It found genII genuine In cancer In iii ur old ohl II a tigress and In n a kangaroo 4 II races or of In and alt all are to er g er Cr under Wd or not Besides the tact that ani and q I 1 all mell are subject to cancer It Is sig rv that the same Mme of caner cancer t ij is III in men and animals It Is be because cause rause ot of this that 50 10 much Is 18 hoped from cancer mn mice It c can he be ii mine mirA tt it seems to ho logical tact hilt It ean be beI cored oho also in III mall maim I r EVANS BYANS |
