AN ALLEGED CURE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 6

AN ALLEGED CURE

EXPLODED IN AMERICA

(From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YORK, 9th December. Two years ago the country was agog with reports of a sensational cure for cancer, discovered by Dr. Walter B Coffey and Dr. John B. dumber, of Los Angeles. With a total disregard of the consequences, and no knowledge of the treatment, the Press, with the exception of an infinitesimal portion that respects medical research, heralded the two men as saviours of humanity. Patients, in the last stages of the disease, travelled! by air to receive treatment.

On the crest of the wave, the two doctors camo to New York to support a proposal for the establishment of a sanitarium on Long Island for the administration of their treatment. The Academy^ of Medicine actively opposed the plan," on the ground that the new treatment had not been sufficiently established. The State Board of Health refused, to permit the opening of the sanitarium.

Au investigation of the CoffeyHumbci' treatment was made by the Kellogg' Foundation, which declared it to be of little use and perhaps definitely harmful. The Foundation made a clinical study of 415 cancer sufferers to whom the Coffey-llumber treatment was given; its report is published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Of the results the investigator, Dr. Kowland Harris, wrote:— "Of the patients observed, bj; the.