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Article: Coley's Toxins: a cancer treatment history.
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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I am writing this letter to reveal the instructions for making Coley's Toxins, a simple procedure. First, however, I want to offer a bit of history on Coley's Toxins.
In 1890, Dr. William Coley was a 28-year-old surgeon in New York City. Much of Coley's history, detailed in this letter, comes from Stephen Hall's book, A Commotion in the Blood (NY: Henry Holt and Company; 1997).
In 1890, Bessie Dashiell, a young woman in her late teens, came to Dr. Coley with a painful injury to one hand. The injury eventually proved to be round cell sarcoma. Coley amputated her hand, but the cancer spread throughout her body, and she died a horrible death. Coley was ...