| Show naw THEORY S TO THE 0 or CANCER SOURCE OF DISEASE ASE IS PARASITE FROM GARDEN WORM it is transmitted to human beings from worm crawl Cra ing over vegetables buffalo N Y nov 18 esthe the but falc academy of medicine last night heard a new theory as to the origin of canter cancer dr hiram D walker for inelly of newburgh gb N Y but now living here said in a paper on the E abject that seven years experiments had bad proved to his satisfaction that cancer Is a parasitic disease and that the common garden worm is the louice of tho the parasite which produces cancer I 1 the transmission n of the para oto eite from the worm to the hum human an bd ins ing comes from the worm crawling over fresh vegetables which are afterward ard eaten ile he said it I 1 am correct in my conclusions at all tho suffering and death caused by bg cancer can be prevented by refraining fra r from eating such vegetables aa s cabbage celery unions and lettuce which havo have beon been infected by these parasites dr walker elaborated ona of sixty experiments on various animals als feeding or injecting the para matic germs obtained from earthworms into guinea pigs mico mice and dogs wab followed in many cases by the development of tumors and cancers ain in almost every case infection was fatal to the animals dr walker pro rented a series of microscopic slides jq lowing cancer cells produced tinder linder these conditions these cells were examined c by special specialists alsta ond and pronounced cancer cells though the specialists were not told from baat animals the cells were taken nor chow bow produced |
