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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, BUNpAY MOHXING, DECEMBER 2 12, 1926. r4 4.,, aV k. CtieckiEiig Conquering Cancer fetf an HOW CANCER A Microicopic Section, Tim, Showing To Beginning CANCER! BEGINS. Magnified 1,800 Cancer Cell Develop. r tissues excruciating Buffering' that makes death agony welcome! The very word causes all mankind to sfrudder. Science, responding' nobly to a suppliant, terrorized humanity, hag crap- pled with and fought this insatiable raon-. - , ster of disease on the field nf theraneutie effort nnlv to emerge from the un- - V equal fray vanquished by j a mysterious enemy. j What, then, Is of great- ' er universal importance' than the recent announce ment by a Canadian sur- that geon i .... ' ' U ' ' ' u axro A Continuation of Figure 1, Demonstrating How the Cancer Cell Grows, Eating It Way Into - - Surrounding Tissues. VQC LX Vtl lH.. HONO l,KCT. VOU VOL. COAnUCTITIOKU. l. TOKONTQ MWfcMBtS, -- Ajjf J 2 , I T. 1 f'J )! f ) The Cancer Researches of Dr. Clover " The article by Dr. Glover is contained in this issue is undoubtedly one of the most complete resumes on the cancer problem that has yet been presented. He not only reviews the important researches which have been made since the beginning of the present century, but describee his own original investigations In addition to the citation of a large number of remarkable clinical eases of cancer treated by an antitoxic serum produced from the blood of horses Immunized against the toxins of the specific micro- -, organism. The description of the cancer organism with iU is extremely interesting as pleomorphic is also the correlation he seems to have established between this organism and the organism of other research workers such aa Young, Nuzum, Rath, Gye and Barnard. The test of time with confirmation of the laboratory work by Loudon, McCormack, Howard and Scott, and the clinical work by such men as Donnelly, War muth, Kurtz, Amey, Clancy, Kerr and White has a pparently established the work of Glover on a sound basis so that we may now look forward hopefully to the day of deliverance from one of the greatest scourges in the history of humanity. ' - ' r ; ' - - S MRS. JOHN MURDOCK. J. A Youthful Photo of the Wife of the Man Whose Money Backed Clover In Hia Cancer Researches nd Who Herself Gave Liberally to ' the Cause. Glover's course was not smooth. He found himself confronted at every turn with skeptical reception, even outright condemnation of his claims. Pragaiatio medical societies linked openly expressed disapproval with whispered inferences of charlatanism. In this respect, Glover experienced disnothing new. Harvey's (1578-1657- ) covery that blood, not air, circulated in the veins and arteries was received with scornful incredulity: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894- ), ridiculed by his fellows for his puerperal infection theory, abandoned the chair of anatomy at Harvard and gave his time to literary endeavor, and many others were tortured by the doubt and malevolence which greeted their deductions. Glover accepted adverse criticisms as added incentive to prove his con clusion that cancer was caused by a germ and that an antitoxin could be produced. He left Canada and came to New York to continue his work. Laboratory equipment was costly, for, in addition to delicate and extremely valuable instruments. Glover's experiments required guinea pigs, horses and other animals not few, but hundreds. J. J. Murdock bridged this gap between mind and matter, giving of his wealth ungrudgingly and unsparingly, with, the result that Glover now maintains he has found the key to the door which has been locked for thousands of years. "What is cancer 7 In 1773, the Academy of Lyons offered a prize for the best essay on the subject Bernard Peyrilhe'a treatise was short and to the point. 1 "Cancer," he wrote, "ia a malady I just as difficult to define as to cure!".. He won the prize. JOHN J. MURDOCK. Pathologically speaking, however, Widely-KnowNew York Theatrical cancer is comparatively simple to de- Executive, Whose Financial Backing Mi d fine. Certain cells, apparently norDr. Clover's Success Possible. mal, begin to multiply and grow ab normally in some part oi the body, first elinleal pathologist at St. Michael's Hos- invading, then destroying the surrounding e, pital, Toronto, oegan his experiments in tissues, eventually causing death. Plimmer, Boncali and others beCanada. Receiving indifferent encouragethat the stimulated growth was due ment, he came to New York about five lieved to a parasite but it remained for GIovr years ago, where his earnest endeavor to to isolate the germ. serve humanity was drawn to the attention Actually, the word cancer (Latins-canc- er of John J. Murdock, t Larchmont, N. Y., carcinoma means "an eating j Greek general executive manager of the vast and this aptly describes the disease. Keith-AIbtheatrical organization. ' This ulcer," It is divided for purposes of study into generous showman gave Dr. Glover the two classifications, carcinoma and sarneeded financial aid which enabled the scientist to proceed undisturbed with his coma. Carcinoma relates to cells of the valuable work and bring to the point of epithelial type and sarcoma to cells of the connective tissue type. Operative treatmaximum efficacy the treatment which it ment has been identified with cancer alis hoped, will permanently extirpate huthe rule being to perways, curse. manity's greatest form radical operation as early as posThe exact amount of money expended sible and cut wide and generously! The by Murdock in the cause of cancer is not use of the and radium seeds or ' known but it is estimated approximately needles has been advocated in recent at from $800,000 to 11,000,000. Both years but whatever temporary beneficial . Murdock and his wife, the, a talented results these treatments may have had, in metropolitan soc- they did not eradicate the metastases or beauty y and unequivo- spreading effects of the disease. iety, have cally supported Glover in.hjs work. . A a fact, doctors affirm that . It Is a notable fact that every important radium enlargesmany the leions, increases and contribution to science had to force its aggravate! the growth. The value of way through an obstructing strata of Glover's treatment, according to clinicians, doubt, ignorance, contumacy, skepticism is that it precludes metastases and apparand that false conception of ethics so prev- ently prevents recurrence of the disease in alent in professional life. Glover's case some other part, especially when the main was no exception and his present success growth is surgically excised. is attributed largely o the Perhaps the greatest tribute to Glover's of hip aociats and the digged per- work was paid by the Canada Lancet and severance with which he pursued his aim. Practitioner, a medical journal recogBorn in Toronto about thirty-nin- e years nized by the profession as an independent, ago. Glover was graduated from the conservative and reputable publication. Lniversity of Toronto Medieal School, be- - The Lancet devoted an entire issue to ginning his medieal career in the city of Glover's treatment and said editorially, in his birth. Quiet and thorough in manner part: "The teat of time with confirmation of and unostentatious in bearing, he established k lucrative practice, becoming one the laboratory work by Loudon, McCorHis mack, Howard and Scott, and the clinical of Toronto's leading practitioner. Donnelly, Warmuth, laboratory work at St. Michael's Hospital work by such men afforded him unexcelled facilities to study Kurtx, Amey, Clancy, Kerr and White the etiological characteristics of cancer. have apparently established the work of Clover on sound basis, to that we may His interest deepened and the determination to solve tha puzzle which had ever now look forward hopefully to the day of perplexed the medical world ted to tha deliverance from one of the greatest abandonment of his private practice. scourf as in the history of humanity. observed Editorial n San-felic- ry ee ed I ' ( I well-know- n whole-heartedl- , ft A HOW CANCER DESTROYS. A the Process of Development Continue, Malignant Ulcer Is Produced. This Picture Shows How the Surface Titaue Is Broken mni Destroyed. Practitioner CAMADUM 4 SPREADS. rYuillMf ." leMntim rf"Th"TkCta4U OwiiM Mrilnl MmiMi" THE 1 A il Lancet The Canada and TU - HOW CANCER ciated with him in his work ha the treatment and its results over a period of years. These men are unanimous in their belief in the therapeutic value of the antitoxin. ; Specialists of Indisputable profjs- sional standing who have established Glover cancer clinics include: Dr. H. B. Kurtx, Cleveland, Ohio; " 'p Dr. J. Willis Amey, New York; Dr. James Kerr, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Drs. Warmuth and Donnelly, Philadel- phla. Pa.; Dr. M. J. Scott, Butte, Mont; Drs, Julian Loudon, J. A. R. I? Clancy and James M. McCormack, i Toronto, Canada, and Dr. John E. White, Malone, N. Y.. Official records from these clinics '. show that many patients in the extreme gtages of cancer responded to the Glover treatment and, to all appearances, became well. Several of these cases had been given up previously by other physicians and had very limited life expectancy. Glover, formerly serologic and Stomach Cancer Thai Responded to the .Clover Treatment. Wa This I Taken June Photo 24, 1925, Arrow Indicates the Cancerau Section. -f Nttlaaal Hrttw" To-da- y, v . j he has solved the pathological enigma of tha ages, bringing can- - f v cer within the realm of , medical control, even possible extinction, and giving new hope to a world distraught by the ravages of this merciless, incomprehensible malady? For nearly 3,000 years cancer, the greatest scourge humanity has ever suffered, has guarded its secret of life destruction and baffled men of science. Theory after theory has been expounded, treatment upon treatment essayed, to meet defeat death The enormous and toll exacted by cancer drove medical men to action. As the centuries rolled by, million of dollars were expended fdr research, the combined power of the world's best scientific minds was concentrated on the cancer problem, but to little avail. Cancer continued on its inexorable way, annually mowing down thousands of human beings and devastating the ranks . of the multitudes. more than 2,000 years after B. C), the..''father Hippocrates (460-37- 7 of medicine," treated cancer by cauterizing the lesions with hot irons, it has fallen to the lot of Dr. T. J. Glover, of Toronto, Canada, and New York, a young Canadian scientist, to define a cause and produce a treatment which leading medical journals hail aa "farthest north" in checking cancer. Clover's cancer doctrine and treatment are the result of more than ten years' intensive research into the etiology of can- - - How a Canadian Surgeon, Backed by an American Showman s Money, Found an Antitoxin Believed to Actually Destroy the Deadliest r :'.".:) .y Wrmrsv , : of Germs 1 1 LAUDS DISCOVERY. Editorial Praise for Glow's Werk in the November Issue of the Canada Lancet, Recognized as Reputable Medical Journal. cer and experiments involving the use of human beings and animals. Priefly, this scientist claims: 1. Cancer is a specific infectious disease due to a germ which be has isolated nd which ia known to his medical associates "Clover's 2. He I producing from the blood of noreea through inoculation combating antitoxin keow as "Clover antitoxin, which ia giving positive results in clinical Use in the United State and Canada.. DISAPPEARING. 3. Tbia antitoxin, administered by inContrast This X jection ia some of the most malignant, inPhoto. Take si October 6. 1925, With operable, hopeless cases, actually ha caused ail symptom of cancer to dip- - . the One. Above. Note the peer, restoring the patients to normal Heeling Process Which Followed keahh and strenf th. Antitoxin Record Glover is not unsupported In hii Shew That Injection. All Canrer Symptom doctrine Several eminent surgeons asso- Were) Eventually Eradicated. Micro-erganisra- ," ' y Qnn!M rwl Inunukxist riu lor QtrM BMUIa Bitts , |