NEW CANCEII TREATMENT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11588, 20 May 1903, Page 9

NEW CANCEII TREATMENT.

ENTHUSIASTIC MELBOURNE SUPPORT fcIK.S.

A deputation, styling itself the Victorian Cancer Research Association, of which Mr A. C. Fk-tfhvr, th« ••ecretury, was spokesman, mviit'.y Miiiij'ht. ih<; support of Ur. Grtajiwel!, Ch.iirii>;in of the Board of Health, Melbourne, ;md submitted three propositions. Tli.- first was that a departmental edentiik inquiry should be h-i-ld into the tffectiveness of an alleged cure now practised by a lay "professor"; the .second, that a medical man should be selected to work with the professor, who should be immune if :i patient .should die under treatment; and thirdly, that the Government should purchase til .specific if cures were effected. The deputation, which consisted of .«is men (including the- owner of the specific) and eight women, were mo*>t enthusiastic in their advocacy of the newtreatment, stating that the had succeeded where doctors had failed. They professed horror of the knife of the surgeon and profound belief in ihe remedy applied, tut their testimony was discounted (says the by the "fart thai there was not a scientific witness amongst the lot. Three (if them exhibited themselves as examples of the cure after all hope had been abandoned for their recovery by members of the medical profession. Dr. Grwawell. in reply, pointed out that in four out of Jive cawes in which patients had died under the professor's treatment v considerable, quantity of aiysenic had keen found in the bodies. "Further, he said, the professor did not profvsft to cure internal cancer, only superficial grow the, and these were cured" by medical men in conic canes without resort to the knife. He had no doubt Muit the ingredient of their lotions were similar to those used by the profexsor, wily that they were applied in different quantities. As the professor would not disclose his secret he .saw tio use for a GαTernment inquiry. The professor would gain a more valuable imprimatur by submitting his remedy bo experts in Ivondon and Amerion, than he could possibly K u m here. As to the second proposition, he had no power; it involved an alteration of the present law of the land. The rrofessor stated tihab he had already concluded arrangements by which he was to receive £3<X),000 for hia discovery—a first instalment of which was to reach him shortly— and Ire merely wished through the present deputation to clear his character from unjust aspersionsDr. Gresswell was patience personified, und after a weary reiteration of stutemente of alleged facts, he concluded the interviewby stating that the deputation had not shown him how he ooulu help them at all in the matter.