Blood Cancer.
j- 'Professor- August Bier, publishes some ini*.tereetingio"bservations in regard to^the effect -of*- injecting -jstenle heterologous /differing in- structure from that from- which it. grows) blood inW the ' human being. -Ijt.',\sas found' that if 10-t0.20 c.c.^ of .Wood- are. injected under the human stem, 'there occurs regularly at the site of-injec-tion an inflammation. The, ' treatment appears" to have no appreciable solvent effect' on normal tissues, but diseased structures, notably malignant tumours, are profoundly -modified. In ulcerative tumours the secretion and suppuration are nearly always checked, and active destruction- of the growths takes place. In one case of inoperable toumour a species of strangulation of .the cancer cells was" caused through the ariolent/anftammatory reaction with the for,nitati6n o£-,new connective tissue. Professor Bier does .not, as - yet venture to predict whether the.method will be found, of actual us© in the treatment of malignant tumours, ;
I but the rceuHs f obtained are certainly striic* ing. "" ' " * " v
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 84
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154Blood Injections in Cancer. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 84
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