Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1910 — CANCER CURED BY VACCINE [ARTICLE]

CANCER CURED BY VACCINE

Dr. P. K. jGllman, Professor of Surgery, Makes a Remarkable Discovery In Philippines. San Francisco.—Cancer, the disease which has baffled medical science for over a hundred years, may be conquered at last. Dr. P. K. Gilman of Oakland, professor of surgery in the Philippine medical schools and surgeon in chief of the Philippine general hospital at Manila, believes he has discovered a vaccine which will stop the ravages of the dreaded disease. With this vaccine Dr. Gilman has cured 20 cases of cancer in Manila. In his laboratories there he has been working for three years on his discovery, and is now ready to give to the world the fruit of his labor. He has prepared an article for publication in the Journal of Science, a medical and scientific review published by the Bureau of Science of the United States, In which the details of the cufo will be made public for the first time. Dr. Gilman has been asked to demonstrate his discovery before the Royal California Institute at Havana. He has been in communication with Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute in New York city, which was established for the study and cure of cancer, and Dr. Flexner is greatly Interested in the discovery. He has written Dr. Gilman for details. Dr. Gilman says that hiß vaccine is a homogeneous suspension of dead bacteria in physicologlc salt solution, mixed with a preservative. It is taken from the tumor itself. In perfecting this vaccine Dr. Gilman was assisted by Dr. A. F. Coca, pathologist in the Bureau of Science at Manila. If it proves to have the curative properties claimed for it. It will steate a sensation in the medical Vaccine has never, been resorted to before, surgery and electricity being the only known methods pf curing the disease, these having been used with only small success. Dr. Gilman was born in Oakland and was graduated from the Oakland public schools. -He received a degree from Leland Stanford University In 1901 and finished a three-year course at Johns Hopkins in 1905. He returned to his home in Oakland on the

transport Logan a week ago on a sM months’ leave of absence. He will return to Manila next January.