CANCER TREATMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1933, Page 3

CANCER TREATMENT

CLAIM xO CURE BY LAY-MAN.

CONSIDERED' SHAM AND FRAUD.

' SYDNEY, May 6. During the pa-st v.eek a resident of Casino, a country town'about 500 miles north of Sydney, died of cancer. Considerable public interest had been taken in hi s case because he had been accepted as a test patient by a special committee appointed ia Brisbane,-to inquire into the claims of a . ‘‘specialist,” who maintained that he could cure cancer by means of a specific, of which he held the, secret.

llie committee has, now reported that the “cine” not only failed, but placed volunteer tost patients in a more unfortunate position than if they had not been touched, The committee came unanimously to' the. conclusion that, the method adapted by the “specialist” in question is “a sham" and a fi’.-.ud, and is based on wrong premises,” and that any attempt to treat the malady on such lines is “nothing ■short-of a- criminal net.” • ff - -

I lie report concludes with an 'expression of apprehension at'"thc facility ■ with which a layman. has been ? able tp float a company ffq coniinercirdi c the treatment, of a fell and similar, clfecase like cancer,” on -such' a foundation f ,s this. It is indeed a depressing .-firry, but it is to be hoped that these •disclosWcs may serve to deter the more credulous section of. the' general ruffrlic from paying too much heed to the pretentions of such “healers” in future. ... . . ..