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Sufferers from cancer have been mortgaging their homes, impoverishing themselves to get funds to carry them to San Francisco to be treated by Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber at their Southern Pacific General Hospital Clinic. Over the protest of Drs. Coffey & Humber. newspapers have heralded as a cure what the Doctors refer to as "encouraging experiment" (TIME, Feb. 24). Deluded into believing that sure, swift relief could be given them, some 1,500 people have rushed to the Clinic, more than could possibly be handled...
Chief among the medical men summoned by California's Senator Hiram Johnson before the committee were Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber, cancer researchers at the Southern Pacific General Hospital, San Francisco. White-haired, horn-spectacled Dr. Coffey related his and his colleague's joint research, explained that their widely heralded "cancer cure" was "not a cure but an encouraging experiment." Dr. Coffey said that 1,506 cases, more than 1,300 them inoperable, had been treated with gratifying results. The Coffey-Humber extract, derived from the adrenal glands, which, when injected into a cancer sufferer...
Supporting Dr. Coffey's testimony was that of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, whose organization is attempting to focus attention on the danger of cancerous growths. Other cancer workers who supplied the committee with information: Drs. Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University. James Ewing of Cornell University, Hugh S. Cumming, Surgeon General...
Pleasant to them was the praise of their employer, President Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific Co.: "We want Dr. Coffey to do his research where he began it'' (in the Southern Pacific General Hospital...
...Coffey and Humber believe that the essential substance of the adrenal cortex stabilizes growth of body tissues. Paucity of this substance permits, they think, dormant wild cells to grow into cancers. Their converse is to supply the patient the substance which apparently at once thwarts such rampant growth...