SOAP CURE FOR CANCER.

Lake County Press, Issue 977, 29 August 1901, Page 5

SOAP CURE FOR CANCER.

That this terrible scourge of humanity should at last be vanquished, seems almost too good to be true, yet there appear to be reasonable grounds for believing that this has been done by T)r J. H. Webb, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. This gentleman deals with the subject in a recent number of tire Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia, and although entirely technical, and addressed to doctors chiefly, it is full of such deep interest as to merit widespread attention. The doctor’s method, in support of which he quotes a number of instances, consists practically of the injection of soap. In many of the cases he mentions, this simple cure acted like a charm. One patient suffering from a breast scirrhus, which a brother doctor had diagnosed as undoubted cancer, was healed completely in about two years. The hard tumor, as large as an orange, disappeared entirely in six weeks, and for fifteen months the cancer was apparently healed. Then an unmistakable cancerous growth reappeared, and there was a malignant cancer, the size of half a crown. Again recourse was had to the soap injection, and in two months the trouble was completely gone. Another case, that of a rodent ulcer of eleven years’ duration, was completely cured in two months under soap injection and some thyroid taken internally. But Dr Webb’s champion case was that of a man in a very advanced stage of the disease, who had the tongue, lower jaw, tonsil, and palate removed. When he commenced the soap treatment, the whole of the interior of the mouth and cheek was one mass of cancer, and although the patient had not quite recovered when the article was penned, there had been an entire disappearance of all outward and visible signs of cancer. If Dr Webb has, indeed achieved no more than to give temporary relief, w'thout the use of the surgeon’s knife, he has done much for suffering humanity, but he himself thinks he has done more, and has found an absolute cure. At any rate, his experiments ought to be carefully examined by the accepted medical authorities.