Excerpt from The Conquest of Cancer, a Plan of Campaign: Being an Account of the Principles and Practice Hitherto of the Treatment of Malignant Growths by Specific or Cancrotoxic Ferments Believing, as I do, with Dr. Beard and Prof. Von Ley den and many others after him, that the war with cancer during the past half-century - which comprises prac tically the Whole of the Scientific period in medicine - has hitherto been conducted on lines all but unprofitable and irrelevant, as the lamentable failure to obtain practical re sults only too fully demonstrates, I have called this vol ume The Conquest of Cancer rather than, for instance, The War with Cancer, not because I wish to maintain any such monstrously untenable thesis as that the disease has been actually conquered, but because I hold that there is. Abundant warrant for the belief that the new mode of attack indicated and initiated by Dr. Beard gives us the key to the enemy's position, and that so soon as this ad vantage be pressed home, the conquest of cancer will be an accomplished fact. The evidence and the arguments of the succeeding pages are submitted in the belief that they should suffice to direct the attention of the practical worker away from modes of attack which have hitherto proved wholly unprofitable, towards a new mode which commends itself on two distinct counts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.