Howard Wilbert Nowell
Howard Wilbert Nowell (May 16, 1872 – 1940), was instructor in pathology at Boston University, and a pioneering cancer researcher.[1][2] He had an early incorrect hypothesis for the cause of cancer, and an early treatment involving a serum derived from rabbits, that was touted as effective, but did not survive rigorous testing.
Biography[edit]
He was born in Merrimacport, Massachusetts on May 16, 1872. He graduated from Lyndon State College, and the following year took a course at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He studied medicine at Boston University, and he graduated in 1911. He became an instructor of pathology at Boston University School of Medicine from 1911 to 1913, and professor at the same institution 1913 to 1915. He was pathologist at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital 1911 to 1913 and special pathologist for the Evans Memorial for Preventive Medicine and Clinical Research. In 1913 he published a report of research work on cancer.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Cause Of Cancer Found At Last By Boston Scientist". New York Times. April 20, 1913. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
Howard W. Nowell instructor in pathology in the Boston University School of Medicine, has achieved a notable triumph in the domain of medicine by discovering a cause of cancer. The active agent which he has succeeded in isolating, after years of patient laboratory work, is an inorganic poison and is derived from human carcinoma, the latter being the name by which true cancer is designated in scientific nomenclature. ...
- ^ "Cancer Alleviated by Nowell Serum; Pain Checked Within 96 Hours, Growths Stationary, and All 50 Patients Treated Improved". New York Times. May 11, 1913. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
Within from forty-eight to ninety-six hours after the first inoculation with Dr. Howard W. Nowell's rabbit serum, the fifty cancer victims treated at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, many of whom had been suffering agony from burning, boring pain, were made so comfortable that opiates were dispensed with in all the cases.
- ^ Edwin M. Bacon (1916). The book of Boston: fifty years' recollections of the New England metropolis. Book of Boston Company.
Howard W. Nowell.
- ^ He was a member of the Boston City Club, the Masonic Fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, American Institute of Homeopathy, Massachusetts Surgical and Gynecological Society, Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society and the Boston Medical Society.