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...simple question was: Should the State authorize the cancer clinic? But in the train of that simple question came a most extraordinary range of considerations-the nature and cause of cancer; the nature and authenticity of the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment; medical ethics, human nature, public policy, money, fame, and even national politics. Representing great wealth, prestige, knowledge and political power, the contestants in this greatest medical fight of many a year in some degree represented buoyant, bouncing, sometimes crass California against balanced, urbane, sometimes effete New York...
...John Davis Humber, 36, short & stocky, pallid from years of laboratory work. He worked out, under Dr. Coffey's direction, the anatomy of the sympathetic nervous system. Together they have proved that the sympathetic system carries sensations of pain, that the terrific pain of angina pectoris is sympathetic. Dr. Coffey stops the pain by cutting sympathetic nerves in the neck. The Coffey-Humber sympathetic studies led them to their cancer work...
...tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic convert), she heard of the Coffey-Humber cancer work in San Francisco. She visited the Southern Pacific General Hospital unannounced and found the patients praising Coffey, Humber and God. Injections they had received had relieved their pain. Their cancerous growths were sloughing off. Mrs. Conners was persuaded that Drs. Coffey & Humber were on the track of a positive...
...State Department of Social Welfare withheld decision on the Coffey-Humber permit...
...April 1930 the Patent Office refused them the patent. But Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, asked the Patent Office to handle the matter with special expedition. On July 1, 1930 Drs. Coffey & Humber resubmitted their patent application, had it granted the next day. This vexed Professor John Morse Rehfisch of Stanford University School of Medicine (Dr. Wilbur is president of Stanford University in absentia, Herbert Hoover a trustee). In sarcastic comment to the American Medical Association Dr. Rehfisch called the patent grant "an example of speed and efficiency which is a true tribute to the Great Engineer...