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
He was born in
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
- 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. ...
- 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.