G. Cooke Adams

George Cooke Adams (1865 – 23 June 1934) was an Australian physician and cancer researcher who proposed the Mulyptol treatment for cancer.

Biography

Adams was born in Sydney. At age fifteen he worked as a city engineer in Sydney for the Municipal Council for 5 years.

He studied medicine at New South Wales College of Pharmacy and obtained his MD from Queen's University at Kingston in Canada. He qualified L.R.C.P. from Edinburgh University. His son Archibald Emmett Adams was a composer. He argued that "cancer is not due to bacterial or parasitic origin, but is a constitutional disease due to a specific or malignant virus originating in the blood".

Adams stated that indigenous foliage from conifers, laurels and the myrtle family improve sanitation and render native-born populations of countries where they grow almost immune from cancer. In 1905, Adams used Mulyptol to treat 55 cases of breast and uterus cancer.

In 1907, Adams conducted a two-year study of cancer in Chicago for the Chicago Board of Health. He came to the conclusion that excessive meat eating, especially from diseased animals is a cause of cancer. Adams reported that the highest cancer mortality was among foreign born Chicago residents such as German, Irish and Slavs whilst Chicago born residents, Italians and Chinese had the lowest mortality.

Selected publications

Cancer in Australia (The Lancet, 1904) Notes on the Etiology of Cancer (The Chicago Clinic, 1907) Why Great Britain Declared War (Chicago, 1914)