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The Proteomorphic Theory and the New Medicine
The Proteomorphic Theory and the New Medicine Author:Henry Smith Williams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART II CANCER: INTERPRETED IN THE LIGHT OF THE PROTEOMORPHIC THEORY AND THE PROTEIN RESPONSE The ensuing pages reproduce with occasional modificatio... more »ns about two-thirds of the text of the Monograph so frequently referred to in this book, as published December I, 1916, under title of The Pro- teal Treatment of Cancer and Allied Conditions: A Practical Study of a New Therapeutic Principle as Interpreted in the Light of the Proteomorphic Theory. I have thought that it might be of historical interest to include the dedication of that work, which is therefore reproduced overleaf. l)tjs monograph telling or a humanitarian work that vitally concerns the livei and welfare of one-sixteenth of the world's total population,—a work carried forward in the face of fanatical op. position, under almost insuperable difficulties, and at great personal sacrifice,— 10 bcMcatcD to the memory of five of my New England ancestors— representing four patronymic generations in direct line— who were Regular physicians of distinction, namely: (l) My great great grandfathe Thomas Williams, A.M. (Yale).M.D. (i7i8-i775),Colonialsurgeoninthe French and Indian wars and brother of the founder of Williami College; my great grandfathers (2) William Stoddard Williams, M.D. (1762-1828), of Deer- field, Mass., and (3) Joseph Goodhue, M.D.. of Portsmouth, surgeon in die Federal Army; (4) my grandfather, Stephen West Williams, A.M., M.D. (1790-1856), Professor and Lecturer upon Medical Jurisprudence, the Theory of Medicine, and Medical Botany, in the Berkshire Medical Institute, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, in Dartmouth College, and in Willoughby University; author of numerous books; personal friend of Valentine Mott and Oliver Wendell Holmes; close associate of N. S...« less