The cancer problem : a statistical study / by C.E. Green.

  • Green, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1866-1920
Date:
1914
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Credit: The cancer problem : a statistical study / by C.E. Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iodide was given and after the twelfth day calcium chloride in order to stop the persistent bleeding, and that on the sixteenth day the granulations began to grow abundantly, and from this date the wound healed up. In Beard’s Enzyme Treatment of Cancer (1911) a striking case of an apparent cure by the use of trypsin and amylopsin is stated fully and illustrated by photographs. The credit is given to the enzymes used, but the fact that calcium was regularly used to increase the alkalinity of the blood must not be lost sight of. In my view the calcium was really the active agent. As to violet leaves, it seems undoubted that one or two cures have been effected by their use.1 So generally is this believed, that the wholesale chemists regularly prepare and sell refined infusions of these leaves, which are used daily. That these infusions have no effect is hardly to be wondered at, since in the cases of supposed cure, poultices or direct infusions of the leaves themselves have always been used. 1 Viola Odorata.—The flowers, leaves and entire plant of the sweet- scented violet have an ancient reputation in the treatment of cancer when taken internally and applied externally. The leaves of the Princess of Wales variety are said to give the best results in doses of 4 drains of a 1 in 1 liquor. The wild pansy (Viola tricolor) is believed to have similar properties of checking the discharge and relieving the pain of malignant growths (Whitla’s Materia Medica).