WAR AGAINST DISEASE.

Shannon News, 11 August 1925, Page 4

WAR AGAINST DISEASE.

SMALLPOX AND CANCER. SCIENCE’S "WONDER WEEK.” LONDON. July 19 Medical -experts emphasise the tact vhal the past seven days have been a. "wonder week” in medical research They believe that Dr. Mervyn Gordon, consulting' bacteriologist to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, has discovered the bacillus of smallpox, thus enabling vaccine to be produced from the virus instead of calf lymph, and leading to more perfect methods ot vaccination.

The utmost interest is being 1 taken in 1 >r. William Clve's success in making mice immuiv against cancer, a discovery which has revolutionised eancer research.

Bactomhogists a,l ready are searching for a. vaccine that, wiil make human beings immune.

The Sunday Herald predicts that within •• year volunteers will be .askto submit to cancer vaccination. They will need to be very brave, because they will be martyrs if the earl iest vaccines fail after inoculation with the living’- germ.

Dr. Gye, who is a general bacteriologist, is resuming' his investigations

of clears.' .distemper. on which lie was engaged at the instance of fox-hunt-, iug inieivsts /when he discovered the cancio- germ. The fox-hunters who su!escribed to the cost of the research obi .•{•ted U. Ur. Gye breaking off the work. Dr. G-. 11. Murray, din-dor of the Im;whU cancer fund, who is associated with Dr. Gyp's investigations, has undertaken to continue the. cancer research. “A most important statement regarding a cure for cancer will be made in the autumn,” says Dr. J. G. Ad ami vice-chancellor of the Diverpool University. "Dr. Wm. Blair Bell, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Liverpool University, will .then disci os° the culmination of 15 years' tests of destroying cancer tissue in human beings. in witch he achieved remarkable success.” Dr. Adami adds: "Jt. is not necessary to know the cause of a disease in order to find its cure. The general rule is the discovery of a cure before the cause is found.