CANCER WITHOUT PAIN

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 18

CANCER WITHOUT PAIN

1RARE CASE IN ENGLAND The rare case of a painless cancer death was revealed at a Sheffield inquest lately. It was that of a woman Christian Scientist who died in a Christian Science nursing home refusing the assistance of a doctor. The woman was Miss Annie Margaret Wear, aged fifty-eight. , Miss Kate Pycott, a nurse at the home, said Miss Wear had received no treatment except prayer. She complained of no pain after two days in the home. Dr'James Clark said that during his twenty-seven years’ practice he had never known another case where pain had not been present. The Coroner: Can you understand this woman not having severe pain? Dr Clark: Yes. If she was a sufficiently ardent believer in the efficacy'of 'the treatment. The coroner, recording a verdict of death from natural causes, said that if the witnesses’ statements that Miss Wear had not suffered the severe pain usually found were correct, it seemed to him to be a very wonderful thing.