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...close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...
Cancer Cause. Four hundred medical men listened intently to Dr. James Bumgardner Murphy, life member at Rockefeller Institute, as he described the experiments leading to his theory that cancer is caused by a ferment inside the body. The adherents of Dr. William Ewart Gye, famed propounder of the virus theory (TIME, July 27, 1925) were antagonistic; Dr. Archibald Leitch of the London Cancer Hospital, whose experiments corroborated Researcher Murphy's, approved...
...tumor had all the characteristics of the tumor from which the extract was prepared. Extract from one species would grow only in the same, or occasionally in a closely related, species. This seemed scarcely the work of a microbe; much more closely did it resemble the activity of a ferment or enzyme like the bacteriophage (TIME, April...
...enzyme-like-ferment-like-nature of the principle has been conclusively established. Final proof must be the production of the same substance from materials which beyond all doubt do not contain virus. And this has been accomplished...
Recent clamorous concentration on the virus theory, which is still in need of more conclusive evidence, throws the spotlight of controversy on the ferment theory. That too demands more research. Cancer controversialists agitate the Mur-phy-Rous experiments, eagerly await the forthcoming volume on the virus theory by Dr. Gye and Hatter Joseph Edwin Barnard which is now in preparation...