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Colchicine (from the autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale) has long been prescribed in the treatment of gout. It attracted the attention of cancer researchers because it is poisonous to living cells, impairs their power to divide. Most cancer workers were disappointed with colchicine and soon dropped it. But Dr. Hans Lettré of the University of Heidelberg persisted. He extracted N-methyl-colchicamid, a substance which proved to be ten times as powerful as colchicine itself in preventing the riotous multiplication of cells (a characteristic of cancer growth...
Fifty patients with breast cancer had been treated for three to four weeks with a salve containing N-methyl-colchicamid, Dr. Lettré told the Paris gathering. In the confusion of postwar Germany he could not keep tabs on them well enough to be sure that any had been free of the disease for five years (the minimum acceptable for a cancer "cure"), but several whose cancers disappeared had been free for three years...
...Editions' 21st volume, a stirring story of an escape from the Nazis, is the first to be published in liberty, the first to omit the defiant inscription of its predecessors: "Ce volume, publié aux dépens de quelques lettrés patriotes, a été achevé d'imprimer sous l'oppression a Paris" ("This book, published with the aid of certain patriots of literature, has been printed under the oppression in Paris...
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