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several news services beginning with the New York Times Parallels with plant cancer and the Washington Post, other papers quickly following By 1925, Charles Mayo of the Mayo Clinic had become suit. The cancer germ had been found. Reaction quickly interested in Erwin Frink Smith's discovery of the plant followed. At The New York Academy of Medicine, — cancer known as crown gall. Livingston and Alexander- spokesman Dr Iago Gladston, fresh from the executive Jackson, sensing a possible link between Smith's work session, held his own sort of news conference, claiming: and their own, went to the Bronx Botanical Gardens to This is an old story and it has not stood up under request cultures of Bacterium tumefaciens, the plant cancer investigation. Microorganisms found in malignant tumors germ he had discovered. No mere accident led Virginia have been found to be secondary invaders and not the primary Livingston towards Smith's work. Smith stained his cause of malignancy.” plant cancer germ with fuchsin, long used to spot tuberculosis. And Smith's bacteria, like Livingston's, When Livingston returned to Newark, her chief, Dr had many shapes. He had stumbled across B. tumefaciens ames Allison, contacted her with the bad news. Since in 1904 when he received some New Jersey daisies with hey had lost the overgrowths — superficially Black-Stevenson funding, he resembling olive tuberculosis, a wanted her to close down Barely unpacked from known disease of plants, but Presbyterian's research and which proved to be plant . 0 move back to the Rutgers Europe, Livingston's husband cancer. University home campus in would now be hounded by Smith had long suspected a distant New Brunswick. And in | the Internal Revenue Service bacterial cause for human still another cost-cutting . cancer, and he criticised gesture, he informed her that (IRS) regarding where they pathologists for drawing... er close friend and associate obtained the funds for the ...too sharp a demarcation between malignant tumors, on the one hand, where the cells of the animal or human host, acting under some unknown Eleanor Alexander-Jackson would have to go. Shocked, Livingston made arrangements o leave Rutgers altogether. European trip. Barely unpacked from Europe, Livingston's husband stimulus, are responsible for the tumorous growth, and would now be hounded by the Internal Revenue Service granulomata {benign tumors] on the other hand, such as (IRS) regarding where they obtained the funds for the tuberculosis and actinomycosis, where a visible microbe is European trip. Someone had implied that the money responsible for the primary tumor and the direct migration of came from his wife's grants. this microbe for any secondary tumors that may appear.* This did not bear out, and the couple demanded to now who had instigated the inquiry. According to Smith drew this conclusion: Livingston's account: "Someone high up in New York in At the bottom, | think the distinction between such a disease, cancer,’ the IRS agent replied."” for example, as tuberculosis or leprosy, and malignant tumors a. a fae w2din fe cent ae of several news services beginning with the New York Times and the Washington Post, other papers quickly following suit. The cancer germ had been found. Reaction quickly followed. At The New York Academy of Medicine, spokesman Dr Iago Gladston, fresh from the executive session, held his own sort of news conference, claiming: This is an old story and it has not stood up under investigation. Microorganisms found in malignant tumors have been found to be secondary invaders and not the primary cause of malignancy.” Barely unpacked from Europe, Livingston's husband would now be hounded by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding where they obtained the funds for the Smith drew this conclusion: Al the bottom, | think the distinction between such a disease, for example, as tuberculosis or leprosy, and malignant tumors is not as sharp as some histologists have been inclined to believe.” It could be said that at one time the entire medical and scientific community was set on fire by Erwin Frink Smith's discovery of the bacteria that caused plant cancer. Smith was twice honourably mentioned in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Indeed, in its August 10, 1912 editorial, "Is Cancer of Infectious Nature?", the journal mentioned how Smith's work made "a very strong case in favor of his view of the infectious cause of cancer in general". In 1921, Margaret Lewis, of the Livingston network, approached Smith regarding her planned chicken inoculations with B. tumefaciens. Lewis would go on to elicit the cancer sarcoma from chick embryos using this bacterium. On January 31, 1925, an English abstract in the authoritative German journal Klinische Wochenschrift, written by oncologist Dr Ferdinand Blumenthal, trapped Smith's attention. Blumenthal, with assistants Meyer somerville 38 * NEXUS European trip. PLAceBpo EYE TEST FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com