A, FIGHT WITH DEATH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 27, 1 August 1911, Page 4

A, FIGHT WITH DEATH.

Mr, W. it. Judkins, editor of the Australian Review of Reviews', and formerly of Wellington, who is suffering from cancer, is in a serious condition (reports a Melbourne telegram}. An examination by Drs. G. A. Syme and M Colt showed that the c&flcef was ih a very malignant form, and that there was no hope of effecting an improvement by surgical interference. The practitioners have decided on one more effort to &teftl the encroachment of the disease, and to this end have adopted a method) of toeataeflt probably never before attempted in this part of the world. Sbme tiflie ago it was discovered on the Continent that patients suffering from «ancer f and who got a concurrent attack of erysipelas, recovered frotii cancer, which, to use the expression of an emifient physician, "melted away like sflow before the morning sun." The physicians considered the treatment Worthy of further investigation, and cultures have been made of the" *rysip»las gerfrt for use in eases of inoperable cafleef. The germ (striptococcus) is cultivated for ten days, at, the expiration of which time another germ (bacillus prodigious) is added, and both are then cultivated together for ten days, with the result that the erysipelas germ is brought to its most malignant form. The germ is then subjected to a, high temperature and killed, after which it is injected pefiodibally into the cancer. The treatment covers n. period of ffcfm sis weeks to three months, and k Mr. .Judkins's case it was started ifiFt- Friday. The tresttrfieht k still only in itft experimental atfiges, but bi\ Coley, of London, piattn that he has personal knowledge of 52 successes, arid he is aware of at least twice that ftufrtber in the hands of others, < Mr. Judkins has been made awarft of the seriousness of his condition, and he accepts bhe position with a. calm fortitude that evokes the admiration and sympathy of all who conifc in contact with him.