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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 506, 31 January 1906, Page 6

CANCER CURE COMING

Medical Authorities Sure Remedy Wfll Bs Found. Radium and JE-55-tjr* In Rijrlit Direction Althtm.-:- I'rolongtd Exposure In »~.nareroßi-In-teresting Heittrch. Published statements with regard to medical discoveries, chiefly in connection with X-rays and radium, follow one another wth such rapidity that it is difficult to follow them with precision. The deepest interest is naturally center d on the achievements of tho3e who- are trying to work their way to the discovery of a cure for cancer, which, as a cause of death, ranks in this country second only to phthisis, says a London report. The results of a series of experiments in Gre-u Urilain and on the continent, are certainly such as to arouse hopes among the expert investigators th-rt they are at least on the right track. It would be rash and unjustifiable to say more. That falv; hopes are being constantly raised by premature announcements of supposedly infallible cures is undeniable. a claim was made recently by the newspapers as a result of the experiments of eminent bacteriologists whe have b'-f n engaged entirely in the ?-.st six months In research work at the laboratory of the Royal College of Surgeons, under the auspices of the carr ?r-research fund. Drs. Murray and Bashford, who were among those appointed Investigators, refuse to Rive confirmation to the story. Nothing, they declare. Is being neglected by the committee, and consequently much research has taken place with respect to Incipient cancer in lower animals, yet the causes of cancer in these animals are often of an entirely different nature from those in man. The cancer cure, said one of the physicians, will never be discovered by one man. When It is found It will be by the continuous efforts of every one engaged. One little clew leads to another, and nobody hides anything or tries to hide anything from his colleagues. It must be noted, too, that there is not the sllghest intimation in the report presented at the annual meeting of the cancer research fund that any definite results from the experiments are likely. ' Prof. Duguet, an eminent Paris physician and professor in the French Academy of Medicine, declares that the experiments hitherto made have revealed nothing on which to base scientific treatment. "We are still groping in the dark." he says, "with regard to the reported cures by the X-rays. My long experience in the largest hospitals in Paris has made me most skeptical. Believe me, these "cures' are not definite." The Middlesex hospital in London is the pioneer in cancer research in Great Britain. It receives suggestions for cures in all parts of the world weekly. Many are given fair trials, but hitherto without success. The Middlesex hoßpital doctors authorize the positive statement *hat while they do not claim to have effected anything like a cure by means of the X-rays and Finsen light treatments, yet suffering from cancer has r-cea relieved. Edison's experience of 111 effects from prolonged exposure to the X-rays is no new thing in the London hospitals, where it has long been found that the demonstrators who are daily in the presence of the rays are liable to epfthcliona, a malignant growth of the skin which is nearly allied to cancer. Two workers in the radiograph department of the London hospitals are now on an enforced vacation with their hands injured, but this is not a common experience. One precaution taken in some of the continental hospitals Is ths. of employing a leaden screen when tahing radiographs, so that only the necessary surface shall be exposed to t'le rays. This plan, it Is thought by the English physicians. Is not necessary, and the suggestion that the operators wear leaden mittens is thought to be Impossible, as they would probably destroy the medical properties of the rays. Wh«n Tiekilmc Cbtispaowai. It has been observed that if the tamed dog is taken back to the wild state, he loses his voice. These "sounding voices" are produced in the animal throat in a way similar to human language, but are not "voices" proper, nor "languages" proper, and yet they are full of psychological expression, and reveal the animal's psychic states. If we tickle a chimpanzee in the armpit, the tou"h produces a grin on the face similar to that of a man under like circumstances. He also emits laughter-like sounds. The same Is the case with the orang-outang. The gorilla knits the brow when angry, just like men We often observe in apes a complete change in the facial muscles when something is going to happen, be it azreeable or disagreeable. It is so also with the child. In apes there is evidently the same connection between the facial muscles and vocal muscles as in man.—London Answers, Swearing- to Eictu, A cricket club in the south of Scotland whir-h has evidently found thnt tbo use of lurid language doesn't add to the amenities of play, has passed the following bylaw: "An} member swearing to excess ma> fcA f ?::> lied." I have not heard whether the club coriiniiuee have yet arrived at arefinitl.ti of "moderate swearing." Th° attempt to find one to meet all cat 3 is lik&ly to result in language both fal and free."—Glasgow Timss.

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