Alameda County Biographies

THE BOHANNON CANCER INSTITUTE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	The Bohannon Cancer Institute, under the management of G. C. Bohannon, is an 
institution established for the scientific treatment and cure of cancer and all forms of 
malignant and benign growths without the use of the knife, burning plaster or X-ray. It is a 
large and thoroughly equipped private sanitarium exclusively for the treatment of cancer and 
tumor sufferers, and the men in charge of the institution have been unusually successful along 
their special line. Their experience in the treatment of malignant growths extends over a period 
of many years, during which several thousand cases have come under their observation. With the 
idea in view that there was no reason why they, who have had experience in the treatment of 
cancer and have made a special study of it, should not specialize in this disease as others do in 
other branches of medicine, The Bohannon Cancer Institute was established. It is only necessary 
to consult persons who have been patients at the sanitarium to be convinced that the services 
there are real and efficient and that the institution is conducted in a manner whih commands 
respect and approbation from all who have come to know about it.

	The directors of The Bohannon Institute claim that cancer is a curable disease and base 
these claims upon the success which they have had in the treatment of it. Their scientific 
method utilizes many different medicines in such a manner as to completely revolutionize the 
treatment of all abnormal growths, either malignant or benign.  There is no one medicine that 
can be successfully employed in the treatment of cancer, and this fact to a certain extent 
accounts for the failures that have been made in the past in this branch of practice.  The 
Bohannon method is founded upon three facts, recognized today by all regular schools of practice. 
First: Cancer in its incipiency is always a local disease and not a disease of the blood. 
Second :  Cancer is a vegetating cell growth and in every instance invades the tissues and glands 
by the process known as infiltration. Third: Cancer, to be permanently cured, requires the removal 
of the remotest cell. Recognizing these facts, The Bohannon Institute employs anti-cancer toxin, 
with a strong affinity for malignant growths, which, being diseased and porous, offer it no 
response but absorb the medicine instantly, leaving the sound tissue in a perfectly healthy and 
normal condition. The advantages of this treatment are as follows:

        (1) It is a very rapid method. The patient only need spend a short time away from home; in 
	    many cases can be treated and return home the same day; the busy man need not neglect 
	    his affairs; the workman loses but a little time; the housewife is gone from her family 
	    but a short time.

        (2) It is a moderate priced treatment. Cost of treatment in every case depends entirely upon 
	    the extent of the growth and amount of tissue involved.

        (3) It is a bloodless treatment. There is no loss of blood and consequently no weakening of 
	    the system.

        (4) It is a safe treatment.

        (5) It does not produce violent inflammation, as usually accompanies the application of 
	    escharotics in general, hence

        (6) Pain is minimized.

        (7) It does not undermine the constitution.

        (8) It does not rack the nerves.

        (9). Patients are not required to remain in bed.

        (10) It does not affect the heart.

        (11) The appetite is not impaired.

        (12) It may be used inside the mouth and on other mucous surfaces.

	This treatment, or anti-cancer toxin, is introduced into the affected tissues by a hypodermic 
syringe and in this way the diseased tissue is reached immediately and effectively. The toxin attacks 
and kills only the diseased tissue, having no effect whatever on sound and healthy tissues. The Bohannon 
Institute is located at 1813 University avenue in Berkeley and is thoroughly equipped and efficiently 
managed, being in the hands of a competent corps of directors, aided by a staff of hospital trained 
nurses, trained also in this particular line of nursing. The institution since its foundation in 1909 by 
G. C. Bohannon, its present manager, has had a very prosperous career and it treats an increasing number 
of patients year by year, its best advertisement being its satisfied clients.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 219