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About 15 years ago Dr. Coffey noticed the research which young Dr. John Davis Humber performed on the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal glands. With Dr. Humber, Dr. Coffey developed a hunch that the cortex of the adrenals governed the natural growth of all the cells of the body, that for lack of an adequate amount of the cortical hormone cancers developed...
...Coffey & Humber gave crude extracts of adrenal cortex to victims of cancer. Many of them at once declared that they felt better. A very few recovered from what may or may not have been cancer ulcers...
...cause is undetermined, its cure possible only when the disease is attacked in its early stages by surgery, X-rays or radium. In its advanced stages the specialist can only make the patient more comfortable while he slowly, painfully dies. Two California doctors, Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, think they have found a palliative or cure in an extract made from part of the adrenal cortex of sheep. They patented their extract, have been running a free clinic in San Francisco since 1930. When they sought to start an Eastern clinic, on Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners...
...cases treated with their extract; 2) that in all cases where the patient did not die the cancer became necrotic, ceased to smell, sloughed off leaving a clean hole. For study 415 patients were sent to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at Los Angeles, there given Coffey-Humber injections by Coffey-Humber representatives, the effects watched by physicians of the Foundation. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Rowland H. Harris published the results of that study. Conclusions...
Other men have worked with the same hormone?Professor Julius Moses Rogoff of Western Reserve University; Dr. Wilbur Willis Swingle & Joseph John Pfiffner of Princeton, Long Island Biological Laboratories, Parke, Davis & Co. and indirectly Mayo Clinic (TIME, June 22); Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey & John Davis Humber of San Francisco and the Southern Pacific (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930 et seq.). But Professors Rogoff & Hartman, first discoverers of the hormone, have less wealth and facilities at their disposal than the rest. Scientists know of their work, but their reputation has not been widespread. Last fortnight Professor Hartman had opportunity to describe...