London Man Thinks Cancer Cure is Near

1912

London, July 6. — "I have not discovered a cure for cancer, but I think I have got very near it," was the announcement made by Dr. F. W. Forbes Ross, whose pain killing discovery was made public recently.

"I am convinced that the cure, when found, will be very simple. As far as my investigation has gone I have come to the conclusion that the cause of cancer has no connection with meat or vegetable diet; neither is it an irritation of parts of a back infection.

"My theory is that cancer cells are really 'Peter Pans' that will not grow old. If we could make them grow old we could cure the disease, because we should stop the multiplication of cells and they would absorbed.

"What I claim to have discovered is that cancer is nothing more or less than an exhaustion of natural quality in a body, possessed by epithelial cells, consequent upon diminution in the body of potassium salts."

—Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, July 7, 1912, page 2.