Show SUNDAY y MORNING APRIL 20 1930 - THE OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER -- r JL n to m iJ - leveci t a A First Complete Story of Their Historic Accomplishment After 41 Years y X £ ' § 4 Xv ' £ri i' a' A X V ’ i( v f I ? 4 1 I 'feasll ft— i of Research With Details of the Free Clinic Backed f ' j v iV --- 4 - ' ' 5— £ j J Vi HL4 V v‘ :uL ‘ v by Uncle ?: -- " -- s:-- - t 3 S t THE FIGHT IS ON” Since tho First Announcement of tho Isolation of a Secretion for tho Relief of Cancer Emanated Fron( the Laboratories of Doctor Coffey and Humber Throngs Have Flocked to the Clinics in San Francisco and Los Angeles for Treatment The Above Photo Shows a Typical Throng in the San Francisco Clinic i ?4J' s A ’Tlk ?" JOT rirnwmhi mii CRUSADER Rewarded at Last After Forty-on- e Years of Research On Waiter B is Coffey Now Gray end Middle-egeHim Shows This Photograph Happy Letters from Sitting at His DeskofAmid Sufferers Thousands 1 Dr John D Hambr Who AwiiUd Dr Coffey la iho Later Years of HU Cancer Research Dr Humber Is Shown Holding in HU Hand a Bottle of the Stabilizing Solution iff' d By EUGENE B BLOCK rE feel that we have mad a beginning w are ready to fight on" U all that Doctor Walter B This claim Coffey and Dr John D Hnmbei which amber-colore- d fluid they for the extract from the suprarenal gland of of sheep and inject into the blood conof to the men and women hope trolling the dread disease of cancer Nevertheless the gratitude of hundreds of people who have emerged from the experimental clinics of Doctors Coffey and Humber in San Francisco and Los Angeles at least temravages of porarily saved from thehas echoed cancer malignancies Patients to all around the world re I a stages of the disease and theirconserDr Coffey of heard tives have one vative announcement As a result ana of the strangest most touching id tne most pathetic pilgrimages in progress world's history is “On to California” the cry of the the days of the gold rush has become and men Then slogan once more women went by caravan — tor gold train Now they go bv automobile boat and airplane— for life Itself Soma cannot travel to tho clinics Some arc too weak eome too poor Lets then a month after the new of the discovery of the cancer eatreet bid had 50(70 appeared Dr Coffey alone stacked up letters and 3000 telegrams in his office—every one of then bar Dr in( a story of human despair There Humber had almost as many were cablegrams from Germany from Australia — from evenrvhtrs Man and women have phoned the clinic from every State in the Union tragically Ithe female MALE ZONES -- t a HE eyes ot the world ere turned toward San Francisco where a distinguished physician and bis assistant are testing a new of method for the treatment cancer The two scientists— Dr fV alter B i Coffey chief surgeon ot the I Southern general hospital of the Pacific Railroad and Dr John D Humber— do not claim a cure in counsel they are outspoken much too hope on ing against the part of the thousands of sufferers who come from all parts of the world to visit their amazing Yet they have achieved clinic extraordinary results u They treat all patients tree Their fadings which represent ona lifetime struggle in research the part of Dr Coffey have the backing of consetvauve institu--tions The United States Departof went of Public tfctlth the City I San Francisco the Southern Pact -£c Railroad the University of California have offered assistance The following article by the editor of a San Francisco newsand paper offers the 6rst complete Doctors the of way detailed story ' their Coffey and Humber made the and extraordinary discovery obtained have results they hopeful in treatment h in Cancer Takes on Many Forms end Strikes Practically All Parts The of tho Body Abort Photograph Shows O' Cancerous Condition of the Tho Photo Stomach Was Taken Through the Lens of e Tiny Flashlight Camera Lowered Into the Stomach by Means of a Tuba STOMACH LIVER i PERITONEUM INTESTINES GENERATIVE BLADDER' BUCCAL CAVITY KIDNEY SKIN begging for the new treatment Some plead that the extract be BREAST? OTHER OR UNSPEC ORGANS rushed to their own physicians by airplane Others offer fabulous sums If tho doctors will fly to the bedside of a dying loved one thousands of ’ miles from the clinic- “We are ready to fight on" Doctor Coffey and Humber have said The fight is on' In that fight there is stark drama gripping and tense In the clinics there are long lines of sufSitting fering men and women standing— eome helpless on stretchers —every one of them waiting with eyes hopeful light In working men with Strong heavy hands tenderly lead thick calloused tottering wives well ing emaciated women fondly supporting frail robust forms of the wasted men drawn faces with they love Blanched in new and stare sunken eyes that love and the are Here pitiful hope faith of humankind epitomized do not Tho doctors insist thot they Thoy’moy claim s euro for concur hundred fow n but ono found bgvo mrmn m fow thousand tests ore not o only onougb to provo this The toko will cogof which science nisance la tho tost of tests— tho tost ' of timo But cancer victims do not ask tor Hope has proof— all they ask is hope in others of relief tn the appeared clinics As a result a great wave of suffering humanity has swept Dt Coffey and his assistant from the seclusion of their early experiments into the spotlight They have found on ' a brand pew stage themselves which has the whole world for an audience To Doctors Coffey ana Humber have come almost inexhaustible offers research to help In bringing their That conclusion still conclusion disapyears ahead eithei will spell these pioneers or ' will respointment to of meruand women from cue millions the most cruelly devastating scourge to ' the world which battle life the of The story Dr Coffey has waged against cancer is an enthralling record of human achievement against odds Bow jack of of funds almost robbed tne world led how fate zeal his great scientific pain-dimm- pain-wrack- Breast rectal ed ed ’ ovi-denc- the-Californi- a ' - I total deaths -- 4551 06 :v i i ' ' ' f shuts blood vessels controls the acts of internal organs and performs such other functions as are not governed by voluntary Wrtv & a?’ v - : f - V 0 - nervous control The sympathetic nerve system ne deduced to be in the ductless glands of the body There he and Dr Humber THE MAGIC concluded lay the stabilizer for which STABILIZER The Hope of Humanity for the Control they were seeking The only question of the Malignant Disease Cancer May left was where to the ductless glands the substance lay Rest in the Little Suparenat Gland The two doctors spent Jong days and Which is Pictured Above Just Over This is One of the nights in the laboratory together until the Left Kidney Ductless System The Secretion Used at last they hit upon the little suprareCancer Cases is Taken from the nal or adrenalin gland tucked away behind the kidneys They convinced Suparenal Glands of Sheep themselves that from the interior of of angina this tiny substance went the secretion gent for years in the fieldwhich preys whose energy was what the sympathic pectoris the heart malady nerves needed to contract blood veshuman the family They heavily upon In the cortex of this gland — sels studied this disease Dr Coffey found outer the it layer — they discovered the which 'characterize that the spasms are due to sudden contraction of the hidden power that caused the dilation of the yessels Here if their theory blood vessels that feed the heart itself is correct lies the hidden mystery of what Next he set out to discover human body’s sta- of ‘growth: zones Hie cortex of the glapd they i evolved an extract For Hie Initial test they wanted to learn if their extract STOMACH UVER would dilate blood vessels — whether it would function as a stabilizer of blood pressure The patient they selected wi ' suffering GENERATIVE from extremely high blood preure He alio happened to have a cancer But they chose to ignore the latter The experiment was to PERITONEUM INTESTINES determine only whether an injection of the exRECTAL tract would dilate the KIDNEY BLADDER blood vessels and SKIN duca the blood sure BUCCAL CAVITY The result surprised rOTHER OR UNSPEC ORGANS TOTAL DEATHS-56- 44 p ?$' J Sam 7 g Sv - vkK- ' v X ? £ v? — H - - — s Tas - j V L- e H- - r J A r V J tSim V 4v4vviiVAs This Picture Shows George Glib Who was Near Death from Cancer (on His Tongue Before the Ney Secretion Was Discovered Afer a JFew Injections the Cancer Sloughed Away and no Trace Remains jut aj Clean fGroove Which Doctors sy Can be Eliminated by a Minor Operation ' f some afflicted with internal growths pronounced hopeless by physicians are eating and working happily jafter a few injection of the sjabilizerf Philanthropic j and governmental agencies have responded to the work end gause of Coffey A committee of the and Humber United States Senate has listened to evidence bearing on the discovery and has reported favorahlf on it The University of California and its affiliated Hooper Foundation for Medical Research have offered! the physicians ' every aid thfy can give The City of San Francisco has moved for the sale o£ city bonds to erect a $500000 clini for cahcer research along the road hewed out by its two sons The UnitedStates Department of Public Health? has offered its assistance and the Southern Pacific k -- ‘ f whole-hearted- ly 1 I CANCER’S TOLL This Chart Compiled by the American Society for the Control of Cancer Shows How the Dread Diseasa Took Its Toll in the United States During 1927 The New Secretion Appears to Ba Equally Effective in Combating Cancerous Growths in All Parts of the Body How Important This Fact Is May Ba Seen from This Chart Which Details the Numerous Organs Subject to the Affhefion him off on a tangent to the study of angina pectoris how he ran dovn theory after theory in an effort to connect ailments of the heart with cancerous growths how he discovered that the sympathic nerves of the body are both motor and sensory and finally analyzed the properties of the suprarenal glands — all contribute an astonishing chapter to the annals of medical research Forty-on- e years ago Walter B Cofgraduated from a medical college fey tn San Francisco and stepped out into the struggle of professional life with and a grim just two things — a diploma determination to devote himself to finding a cure for cancer His mind was set against charlatans who periodically heralded the discovat ery of various cures His rebellion their injustice to humanity became the thesis subject of his graduating Without money or influence be few years of his work found the first e Once-hBeft Jbis office deterhard But mined to give up his profession he returned and continued his struggle For vears he carried on his experiFor over thirty vears ments alone he gathered data and analyzed JL forever running dowp every biological or physiological theory which might possibly lead to a solution of the mystery Nine years ago he was joined tn his experiments by Dt Humber At the behest of Dt Coffey Dr Humber gave up his practice in! San Francisco and burned to New Orleans to study at Tulane University along special lines which they agreed must be followed Before that they bad labored together to prove a theory to Physiology that Dr Coffey believed led to the secret of cancer Fat and circumstances played their the development of that theory Sart indoctors were led off on a tan- -- - Ccpjngbt 19SS caused these contractions After a long period of experimentation he found that the cause was certain impulses of the sympathic nerves- At this stage he decided that he must find what kept the contracted vessels from expanding of their own The result was the basic accord confirmed by Coffey to a dis- theory cussion with the famous Professor Langley at Cambridge University Engnerves are land that both sensory and motor Coffey then probed into the cause of the impulses of sympathic' nerves and found that they resulted from the effects of hormones tn the body Coffey knew that cancers develop at the point of irritation He was convinced that cancer cells are ordinary cells left over from the normal building-up of parts of the body like sticks of lumber after the building of a house He reasoned that these superfluous left-ovcells remain dormant just as soma hormone the stabilizes of growth servos tho systema When that becomes deficient or coasos to function ho told himself the system is? thrown out of balance and cells develop into cancer tha left-ovThe stabilizer then he reasoned controlled the growth of tissue —but he must find the stabilizer the key to ' " his life’s work Hi quest for the stabilizer led him into an exhaustive study of the two nervous systems of the body as well as of the ductless glands He knew that the central nervous system— spinal cord and brain system— controls volun- tary functions or where an actcen-of will is involved The brain is its ter But the sympathic nerve system was different and he must now find where its center lay This sympathic s tern functioning independently of e central system Is what opens and the-sympa- as-lon- er er S InurnaUneoJ fMtiuv larrtca lae 15 to 19 thic er body-stabilis- & Uraal Srttais Sight Swims 301 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 £90 95 IOOtCaW 25 20 TO to TO TO TO J'L Ahl0 - ' to To J ‘JSL 24 29 34 39—44 49 54 59 64 69 74 79 64 8994 99 ovt TO TO TO TO j — In This Graph the Ameruaij Society for tho Control of JancergHas Illustrated f May be' Seen the Prevalence of Mortalities From Cancer at Various Ages ‘ That the Rate Rises Swiftly After Thirty Reaches Its Peall at the Age'of Sixty-’ f six and Declines Sharply Thereafter! them The: patient's blood pressure Railroad interested because Dr! Coffey But the physicians is chief surgeon qf its general hospital dropped 'Steadily has offered the hnlimlled backing of were amazed and still more elated its financial resources One director when they' discovered that their paof the railroad Ed ward Harkness as tient’s cancer began to slough a'way an individual hai given $600000 for 'Dead cancer tissue was ejected more with a cancer research laboratory extract their tried They cancer sufferers One of the first had If the efforts of Dy® Coffey and Twenty-fou- r been in pitiful pain Humber have really evolved a permahe said nent cure for cancer heir fame will hours after the first injection his pain was gone probably last as longas the human he race feared exists To1 be si re their final the doctors Still skepticaL was swayed by suggestion —--that the discovery of the stabiliser as a cancer remedy was in the nature of an accipowers of his mind to the desperate At that moment ijthey were look- his dent Suffering hope had worked to allay So they resorted to a ruse They in Jng for a remedy for high blood pres- sure In this respect pfieir discovery jected a few drops of sterile water was like many of the most important The waited paAnxiously they in the annals of science discoveries of tn them for sent complaining tient But the circumstaftcesfof the experitense pain Then they gave him another injection of the extract He sent ment do not at all concern the mil- -' if the cure is for them a few hours later to say that lions who - ! 3 A dozen genuine and lasting his pain was gone again j bed of was out Time will tell 4 Physicians ordinarily treatments and he The results have been the same with allot five year as they period during which new medical dpcoveriea must an overwhelming number of the parun the gauntlet of The clinics ornfe Calif tients treated at the All of the patients agree that after fate of the suprarenal! secretion and field of medicine the firsj Injection into their arms all its importance in thedecided Even be definitely by 1936 were may gone agonizing pains ! i g T c i L j will-benefi- 4‘ -- t t: -- j 5 4 i |