Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 3, August 24, 1946 Page: 24
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DOCTORS POMERAT AND THOMAS They Seek a Cure not Longevity
TEXANS SEEK CANCER CURE IN ACSWhile the world waits a thousand
years to see whether or not Russia's
longevity serum will produce a Methuse-
lah, internationally known medical
scientists in Texas are applying the
serum to the study of cancer cure and
prevention.
Researchers at the University of
Texas Medical Branch in Galveston,
one of the earliest groups in the United
States to look into the Soviet medical
experiment, believe the tissue-restoring
elements of Russia's anti-reticular cyto-
toxic serum (ACS) can arrest malig-
nant cell growth and stimulate blood
cells to overcome malignant elements.
Early in 1944 Anatomy Doctor C. M.
Pomerat and Preventative Medicine Doc-
tor Ludwik Anigstein (known for typhus
and Bullis fever research) began test-
ing the serum in experimental animals.
They also grew a variety of animal
cells in glass dishes, treated them with
anti-serums and thus discovered new
direct evidence regarding the mode of
action of anti-cell immune serums.
ACS Stimulates Defense Areas
Another anatomy scientist, Doctor
Thurlow Thomas, examined the minute
anatomy of bone, spleen, and lymph nodes
of experimental animals to discover
scientific evidence that ACS stimulates
the activity of defense areas. Bio-Chem-
ist Edward Frieden, working with him,
proved that the mode of action appears
to be related to enzyme systems within
cells. Current research is concerned with
discovering exactly which of the many
possible enzyme chains within cells is
affected.
Cells accumulated in body cavities of
highly fatal cancers are being grownby Doctor Pomerat on the walls of test
tubes. The nutrient fluid used to bathe
and feed the cells is enriched with anti-
serums at various concentrations. The
test tubes then are observed microscop-
ically and changes in the living cells are
recorded photographically.
ACS is an immune product produced
by injecting spleen and bone marrow
cells of man into the blood stream of
horses. After five or six injections of
of increasing concentration, antibodies
developed by the horse are harvested.
When this material is reinjected in mi-
nute doses in human beings, the reticular
cells of the recipients' bone marrow,
spleen, and lymph nodes are mobilized
for higher defensive efficiency.
Technique Hastens Heating
Soviet scientists claim to have shown
that this technique will hasten the heal-
ing of fractures, is a defense against
tuberculosis and can overwhelm organ-
isms producing typhus and other infec-
tions. While they have made cautious
claims regarding cancer, they hold that
the spread of cancer may be limited
and that certain types of extremely pain-
ful malignant disease may be reduced
in severity, through the use of ACS.
The history of ACS began at the turn
of the century when Eli Metchnikoff, a
Russian scientist at the Pasteur Insti-
tute in Paris, believed that he could pre-
pare antisyrup against certain body
cells which, under favorable conditions,
produced tissue damage.
Discoveries Are Shelved
It was established 40 years ago that
antibodies prepared against white blood
cells and red blood cells could paralyze
such elements when the serum was usedDOCTOR ANIGSTEIN
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at high concentration, and could stimu-
late increases in the numbers of these
cells when the serum was given in mi-
nute doses.
Little work was done to follow up
discoveries until the last war when a
group of Soviets led by Doctor A. A.
Bogomolets began using cytotoxic serum
in the treatment of wounded soldiers.
Bogomolets' special contribution was
the preparation of serum in relation to
defensive cells found within bone, spleen,
and lymph nodes. These reticular ele-
ments are believed to have importance
in devouring bacteria and harmful cells.
Other investigators in this field have
included Dr. Harry Goldblat of the West-
ern Reserve Institute of Pathology and
a Los Angeles Lebanon Hospital scien-
tist named Strauss who has proved that
the healing of fractures can be hastened
by ACS. Doctor Goldblat has made avail-
able anti-serums which have been tested
in 3,000 patients with results sufficiently
encouraging to induce the scientist to
plan a concentrated, systematic study on
human subjects.
Slave Test Still Good
As for ACS and longevity: Many
scientists look upon this not so much
in terms of keeping people alive for an
incredible span of years as in keeping
bodily activity at a peak of efficiency
during the usual three score and 10
years.
Today there is no way of measuring
how old a man really is. It is common
knowledge that'some men are "old" at
40 and others are "young" at 65. This
factor is naturally of great importance
in considering the outcome of a serious
disease afflicting the "old" in contrast
to the "young" type of person.
The old slave test of the resilience of
the skin above the knuckles is as good
as anything science can offer until a
sufficient number of years have elapsed
to prove 'findings" in the study of, aging
factors in tissue.',:
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