THE CAUSE OF CANCER.
A NEW THEORY
Tli/Buffalo Academy of Medicine n.S.A'O, recently heard a now theory to the origin of cancer. Dr Hiram ) Walker, in a paper on the subject, aid that seven years’ experimenting lt l proved to his satisfaction that ■aiicer is a parasitic disease and that L co nimon garden worm is the sourco f {he parasite which produces cancer, (he traiflSSission of the parasite from to the human being comes Yom the worm crawling over fresh vegetables, w#ch are afterward eaten, Dr* Walker elaborated on a series of ; K t v experiments upon various animals- feeding or injecting the parasitic (r’erms obtained from earthworms into° ff uinea pigs, mice and dogs, was followed in many cases by the. development of tumors or cancers and in almost every case infection was fatal to tho animals. '
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2425, 13 February 1909, Page 7
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139THE CAUSE OF CANCER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2425, 13 February 1909, Page 7
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