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The Conquest of Cancer
It is incumbent upon all physicians and surgeons who have made any
improvement or discovery that may help in the constant warfare against
disease and premature death to report such discovery or improvement
to the medical world at large, so that perchance it may fit in, becoming
a necessary cog or a stepping stone whereby the army of this world
may function more readily or move upward toward the unseen and perhaps
unattainable ideal of a humanity free from disease, plague, and early
death. Also, it is morally obligatory upon those who gain help and
knowledge from such contribution to acknowledge their obligations by
reporting back to the same journal their successes or even failures,
in order that such claims may be fully verified or disproved by the
light of experience and corroboration.
The following article is to bring up-to-date the writer's
progress in the war against cancerous disease, to present his clams,
and the results of his treatment.
First of all, what are the underlying causes which allow the formation
of neoplastic growths? These he believes to be the following.
1. A deficiency of potassium in animal tissues
2. Potassium deficiency causes loss of function in posterior spinal
3. Hypochlorhydria is the chief cause of potassium deficiency.
4. Hypochlorhydria, likewise, causes alkalosis of tissues.
5. When a group of cells becomes isolated from nerve control, such
cells will become a parasitic entity.
Potassium is one of the essential minerals of animal tissues as well
as in vegetable life. Potassium is found in all cells, tissues, and
fluids with the exception of milk. Potassium salts are absolutely necessary
for the sustenance of life. In small doses, they stimulate the heart
and raise the blood pressure. In poisonous doses, they depress and
paralyze the various functions of the body. It is claimed by Wood that
the stimulating effect of beef tea, beef extracts, and coffee is due
to the small amounts of potassium contained therein. To its value in
vegetable life, reference has been made in previous articles. No crop
can be grown without its presence in the soil, and the contrast when
potassium deficiency is corrected is at times almost unbelievable.
That a deficiency of potassium in the human tissues can set up great
pathological disturbances is easily imagined, but just what these tissue
changes are has never been established.
Clinical reports are few, yet for years has not Blaud's mass,
with its potassium carbonate content, been one of the standard
remedies for impoverished blood and asthenia? The writer contends
deficiency in nerve tissue will bring about a slow degeneration
and loss of function, attacking particularly the posterior spinal
and that this malfunctioning is the cause of neoplastic growths.
Deficiency of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice is becoming, under
the stress and strain of modern civilization, very common. That this
deficiency will cause imperfect digestion and assimilation of food
is easily understood. Rhe mineral content of food will also be imperfectly
absorbed. Thus, a vicious cycle is thereby set up. As potassium in
the acid gastric cells becomes depleted, less and less HCl will be
excreted into the digestive fluids, thus giving rise to asthenia, diabetes,
toxemia, and, above all, profound tissue changes. That hypochlorhydria
will bring about the condition known as alkalosis in the cells of the
body is easily grasped, although much further laboratory work is required
to show the process by which this condition appears. As HCl is the
only normal acid to the human economy, it must be inevitable that such
is the case.
When carcinoma, for instance, is fully established, this alkalosis
is increased by the lactic acid excreted by the cancer cells. Therefore,
excess of lactic acid in stomach and tissues of body is but another
term for alkalosis. This condition is supposed by man to favor the
formation of or to precede the appearance of cancer.
In this city, a thick, waxy-leafed plant is grown for ornamental purposes.
When one of its leaves is broken off and lies upon the ground, it puts
out roots and shoots, and if in a favorable location, the seedling
will grow into a similar plant from which it came. In other words,
cut off from its nerve control, it takes on an independent existence.
So, in cells of the body, any cell supplied by nutritive elements,
yet cut off from nerve control, must of necessity become an independent
growth, the nature of which depends upon the kind of cell or cells
involved. This theory, therefore, can explain all the innumerable varieties
of neoplastic tumors, both benign and malignant growths.
It is the writer's belief that the posterior spinal nerves
have a sensory function controlling and inhibiting cell growth
the anterior spinal nerves, as is well-known, in addition to their
motor control, stimulate cell production. This is shown in progressive
muscular atrophy, and in infantile paralysis, where the anterior
spinal nerve centers are involved, causing destruction of tissue
affected muscular areas. So, likewise, if the posterior spinal
nerves or centers are involved, a loss of control over areas affected
ensue, thus allowing the various forms of neoplastic growths. In
other words, the cells are cut off, both from sensory and inhibitory
This also explains the lack of pain or discomfort in early cancerous
As all theories and hypotheses are dependent for their substantiation, finally,
on clinical proof, the writer presents two cases that are uncomplicated by
other diseased conditions to illustrate above claims, in addition to those
already quoted in December 1932 issue of The Medical
World, giving not only
the remedy used, internally and intravenously, but the treatment applied to
the local lesions.
Cancerous growths, when localized on skin or in the orifices of the body, must
be destroyed. At the same time, if the conditions that caused their appearance
are not corrected, sooner or later their appearance at the same site will become
manifest. The formula I use, by mouth and by intravenous injection, in these
cases is as follows:
|RX Sol. potass. ars. (Fowler's:)
Tr. ferri chloridi
Saturated sol. potass. sulphatis
Sol. HCl (two percent)
|f 3 ins
f 3 ij
q, a. sd. f3 iv
Dose by mouth: five to 20 drops.
Intravenously: 3 to 7 minims in 10 cc. of sterilized distilled water.
Why should the above formula be effective? What, in other
words, has to be accomplished? First, phagocytosis. This term not only
invading germ life, for these are always present as scavengers of the
body in diseased condition, but also destruction and absorption of diseased
Arsenicum has been known for many years to have this therapeutic virtue,
to increase hemoglobin and red cells of the blood. It also helps to correct
always present in cancerous affections. Ferrum seems to have a special
affinity for cancerous cells. When applied locally, it is very destructive
lesions. Ferrum, likewise, is essential to restore hemoglobin, to create
cell oxidation, and, with the sulphur atom present in the solution, to
normal metabolism of the cells. In cases of hemorrhage from cancerous
growths, the writer has found it necessary to add a sulphur lozenge daily
to the treatment.
This readily brings relief from bleeding lesions as found in stomach,
bladder, rectum, etc.
As to potassium, one might ask what proof exists that a deficiency of
this metal is involved in neoplastic growths. It can be readily surmised
element, so necessary for life, can become deficient, but whether this
supposed deficiency is responsible for the above condition can be demonstrated
by the biochemist in spinal nerve tissue of cancer victims. Since this
metal has been added to the acid mineral solution, results have been
satisfactory and curative, even in the most advanced and hopeless cases
of cancer, that the writer feels justified in making this claim. The
of the writer, that potassium chloride in the gastric acid cells is the
chief source of HCl in the gastric juice, and primarily not from the
in the plasma, is, he believes, logical and understandable. Therefore,
a deficiency of potassium would be a potent factor in hypochlorhydria
present in so many
of the progressive degenerative diseases. If such a deficiency of potassium
is corrected, and if this hypothetical deficiency is really the chief
cause of the degenerative diseases (including neoplastic growths), marked
must appear in these patients and so substantiate this hypothesis. And
these curative manifestations are exactly what the writer, day after
day, has witnessed
and wishes to put on record. Every case of cancer put on the acid mineral
solution has responded favorably to its action. No matter whether it
be applied to local
lesions, given by mouth or administered intravenously, the result in
cancer is always favorable and at times unbelievable.
As to hydrochloric acid, Dr. Burr Ferguson and Dr. C. De Witt Colby both
have shown repeatedly the value of this acid. In spite of alarmist cries
ranks of the ultraconservatives, they have repeatedly, with miraculous
effects, injected this dilute acid into the bloodstream. They have also
by careful watching, a marked increased activity and number of phagocyte
corpuscles. The increased supply of chlorine to the tissues rapidly controls
H ion slowly changes alkalosis of tissues to the normal pH 7.3.
This acid mineral solution is the outcome of four years' clinical
study. It has the virtues of all those minerals and contains all the
possibilities of HCl therapy demonstrated by those eminent physicians.
Also, being an
solution, its ions are readily absorbed and consequently are very active.
The following case demonstrates how, without use of X-ray and expensive
radium, small local lesions may be readily and inexpensively treated
with this acid mineral solution, with far better results than those treated
by raying, and it is available in all communities. This case also demonstrates
how multiple skin cancers are very often but probable metastases from
a pyloric growth.
Case of M. S., St. Augustine, Florida. Male, 55 years. History of gastric
distress and frequent vomiting since 1921. Toxemia, high blood pressure;
of sore on right temple, 1926. This lesion was treated with radium twice
in 1928. Three more growths appeared on face and one behind left ear
These lesions were treated by X-ray therapy at Pensacola Veterans Hospital;
also his toxemia and hypertension, November 1931.
July 1932, case came into writer's care. Examination showed lesions of
face and head were increasing in area and depth, the one on right temple
angry, crusted and red from radium burn. Vomiting at least once weekly.
pylorus swollen, tender, and indurated. The acid mineral solution was
ordered four times daily; dose, nine drops; with relief of gastric symptoms.
the smallest lesions on face were scrubbed with Fowler's solution
until diseased cells were removed; then site was painted with tincture
Later, the cancers on chin and back of left ear were covered with a thin
absorbent cotton, which was fastened at edge to skin by collodion. Then
HCl, full strength, was dropped on cotton and allowed to remain on lesion
90 minutes. Ungt. zinc oxide was applied daily. Results were perfect.
burn and cancer was again scrubbed with Fowler's solution, all crusts
removed, and painted with tr. of iron.
April 1, 1933. Face well; radium burn still red; digestion nearly perfect,
vomiting rare, soreness over pylorus absent. This case should still continue
remedy for several months longer.
The next case is one of gastric and duodenal carcinoma.
W. T., age 42, veteran, children. Had suffered from gastric troubles
at times since 1911. Disabled by gastric trouble since February 1930.
attack of chickenpox; stomach trouble grew worse.. Went to Pensacola
Naval Hospital, September 1931, for treatment. Discharged with no relief
1, 1931, as hopeless case of gastric ulcer. May 1, 1932, X-rayed at Flagler
Hospital, St. Augustine. May 8, 1932, entered Lake City Veterans' Hospital.
Discharged June 1932, as a hopeless case of gastric cancer. Became worse,
from stomach and bowels. Almost died January 1933.
February 22, 1933,
writer took over case. He was in great pain and profound cachexia. Hemoglobin,
40; pulse 120; fever and night sweats, diarrhea. Hands bloodless, sores,
moribund, unable to walk. Palpation disclosed a large mass in upper abdomen
very swollen and tender to touch; taking opiates. Treatment was 3 to
minims of acid mineral solution intravenously every three days and five
oatmeal water, six times daily. On account of extreme poverty, no particular
be ordered. Slow improvement took place; bleeding gradually stopped;
also less pain.
May 2, 1933, patient up and walks out. Pulse, 100; still
color returning to face and hands. Hemoglobin, 70. Good appetite, but
distress at times; still has fever and sweats occasionally, perhaps due
of disease tissue, slight cough. Mass in abdomen no longer palpable;
still tender. Prognosis: looks as though he will recover. Intravenous
discontinued. At no time did these injections cause any disturbance.
Drops continued by mouth
six times daily. Due to extreme poverty and lack of suitable food, entire
credit is given to medical treatment.
The first case quoted shows how small cancerous lesions of skin can be
quickly and easily destroyed with a minimum of pain and scarring, without
the sad after-results
attributed to radium and X-ray treatment. The acid mineral solution is
quite inexpensive and readily available in all parts of the world, so
no matter how poor, can obtain this treatment.
The above cases were described in detail and can readily be verified.
If the second one recovers, another film will be taken for comparison.
mineral treatment promises much is evident. Further improvement in standardization
and correct dosage of remedy needs more experience with a plentiful clinical
material. So far, clinical results bear out the hypothesis given, and
if, in the writer's opinion, the nerve control of cell metabolism can
be reestablished, absorption will take place in internal growths.
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