Dr. Walter Robert Hadwen's works.

  • Hadwen, Walter R. (Walter Robert), 1854-1932.
Date:
1896-1908
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    off, ought to have had Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in the chair. (Renewed laughter.) At all events, the late Colo- nial Secretary will now be able to say that the very humblest citizens of the greatest capital of the mightiest Empire in the world are at least opposed to free trade in disease, and would support—to a mouse, any protection Bill he chose to introduce. This interesting refusal of English mice to take on German cancer only shows that The best-laid schemes o' men on mice Aft gang agley. (Loud laughter and cheers.) But the scientific free-traders were determined to overcome what they call these initial difficulties. They worked at the English mice until they had forced them to take on German cancer, just as King Charles forced the ship-tax on the people of England. King Charles lost his head and crown. English scientists win Royal smiles and honour and emoluments. But in the one case it was men who suffered ; in the other it was only mice. (Hear, hear.) And now for the discoveries. First : These eminent scientist; found out that, just as in human beings, cancer occurs spontane ously more among aged mice than it does in young ones. That i: interesting, but I don't know that the knowledge is of any particu lar value. Secondly : They found that when they pumped cance into the bodies of mice the young ones took it on rather better thai their older friends. What the value of that information is I canno say ; it takes an expert to find that out. Thirdly : The power o continuous cell multiplication was demonstrated by the fact tha a single mouse tumour produced an amount of tissue equal tuff more than a thousand mice, but as they admit this fact of ce!.| multiplication had been recognised long, long ago, I do not knov why on earth they wanted to torture mice to discover it over again. Fourthly : They put sound mice with diseased mice and they foun:fc the sound ones did not take cancer ; therefore, cancer was not ir.|jj fectious. This was considered so important that H.R.H. repeate d; the fact in his speech. I thought we had had thousands of hurria H beings living with cancer patients, for ages past, and accordingl U knew all about this ; but they don't say whether they were GermaiB