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William Coley

William Coley

American surgeon and oncologistWikipedia

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Sep 18, 2026

David HaworthHOST
16:04
It's the story that keeps me as a card carrying Ph.D. physiologist very humble about what's truth and what's not truth.
David HaworthHOST
16:15
And it's the story of William Coley and Coley's toxins.
David HaworthHOST
16:19
So take yourself back to the 1880s and 90s.
David HaworthHOST
16:24
Hard to do.
David HaworthHOST
17:27
at somebody's tumor on their head or neck, and then I close it again.
David HaworthHOST
17:32
Now, that works, but we all know what the side effects of radiation is, particularly that lots of skin ulceration, lots of radiation disease, a lot of brain fog, not in this case because of immunomodulation or autoimmune issues, but because they had radiation blasting through the brain tissue.
David HaworthHOST
17:52
There's another guy, another doctor in New York at the time named William Coley, who took a Staphylococcus bacteria, grew them up, killed them, and then injected them into the tumors.
David HaworthHOST
18:06
And he had massive success.
David RasnickGUEST
8:01
He's a physician in New York.
David RasnickGUEST
8:04
Coley, William Coley, that was his name.
David RasnickGUEST
8:06
He's in my book.
David RasnickGUEST
8:08
And he had this guy who had a sarcoma on his jaw, and Dr. Ewing, a surgeon there, would keep removing it surgically, that thing, but it kept coming back.
David RasnickGUEST
10:39
Wow.
David RasnickGUEST
10:39
Two to 3%.
David RasnickGUEST
10:40
And William Coley's 50%.
David RasnickGUEST
10:42
Wow.

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