Report of what was probably the first effort to save the life of a cancerous human being by means of a new procedure appeared last week in the American Journal of Cancer. The patient, a woman dying from recurrent cancer of the breast, came to the attention of Dr. Mendel Jacobi of Brooklyn. Dr. Jacobi injected a small quantity of a solution under the skin of the woman's diseased armpit. That solution was a filtrate of Bacillus typhostis, the germ which causes typhoid fever. Twenty-four hours later Dr. Jacobi administered a second injection of the filtrate intravenously.
This procedure should have elicited...
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