REPORTED CURE FOR CANCER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13791, 21 July 1910, Page 6

REPORTED CURE FOR CANCER.

At a meeting held on Tuesday, last,V the South Canterbury Hospital Board*, received a letter from Dr. H. V. Drove, v of Timaru, who wrote drawing attcn- * tion to an article in "Life" on cancer,'.] stating that he had years ago advocuted* the treatment therein 'described, and-' asking the board to provide facilities at? the Timaru Hospital, to enable them "to -\ test this serum treatment. Dr. Drew ' said ho had written to Dr. Mason eight," years ago for permission to experiment \ on animals, hut he- could not obtam \ this permission. "The article referred ' to stated that about four years ago tiro" , * wife of a well-known physician "became ill with a particularly malignant cancer."' Almost miraculouelyi|:i!iid without the aid of doctors, thfe:iSi£k woman all at once began to improve',, and noir, after *'■ the lapse of four years, there are no * indications of the original disease. Iv ] the], meantime, however, she hs& .in aggravated dropsy, and cd "tapping." It occurred to Eugene Hodenpyl, a Trell-kaown j>at"hfe;& legist, that the patient's ascitic /Jty dropsical fluid might contain antagonistic to the development of can*/; cer, and he immediately "began 'using,iftwith this" idea in view. Hβ first teafcoJlJ , the fluid upon -white mice that were jn " advanced stages of cancer. The result* J , were fairly magical. In practically'all,..; of the cases the tumours > a few days. These results clearly-jlKti- ';,- lied the use of the fluid on human-I*>- * ings.. The article,further says that the -,J curative scrum is limited, its continued •<-, supply depending upon a single life> now - in the advanced stages of a mortal cis-<*. ease." The Board decided to grant' the « permission sought. , ',/„&