Two San Francisco surgeons, Walter Bernard Coffey, 62, and John Davis Humber, 35, of the Southern Pacific (Railroad's) General Hospital, able men both, deliberately told the newspapers that they were using extracts of the adrenal cortex on human cases of cancer, with promising results. Editors naturally "played up" their story, and readers, as naturally, inferred that here was a definite cure for cancer. They rushed in multitudes to San Francisco. Last week Drs. Coffey and Humber could not attend the hordes of miserable comers who applied for treatment at the General Hospital. Many...
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