ANOTHER "QUACK " EXPOSED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 18 April 1908, Page 3

ANOTHER "QUACK " EXPOSED.

ALLEGED CANCER CTIRE. j LONDON, Feb. 211 t A jury at Manchester Assizes yesterday, after seven minutes' consultation, awarded £600 damages to Mrs Annie Johnson, a Darwen weaver, who brought an action for alleged negligent treatment against George Hall, of Dr Hall's Hygienic Company, of Broad Street, Pendleton, Manchester. , Plaintiff's case was that there had been gross fraud and negligence, on defendant's part. 'Although she had a,, malignant, but small cancer in her | breast, defendant had endeavoured to cure her with medicine which did j neither harm nor good, and advised j that operation would not effect "a cure. She grew worse in consequence of delay, and was now beyond cure, and was not likely to live many months. Defendant's reply was that plaintiff's life probably had lasted as long, or longer, under his treatment, as it would have done if an operation had been performed earlier. Mr Langdon, K.C., claimed that although the knife had been used more frequently in recent years, there had been an increase in deaths from eani cer. ! Dr Shaw (London) expressed the j view that operation was not a cure for cancer, and he considered that operation caused the period of recurrence to be shortened. Cross-examined by Mr Justice Pickford, he did not think it necessary to apply more than palliatives. He agreed, however, in re-examination, that something more might have been done than was done in this case. Mr Justice Pickford characterised Hall as a quack doctor, who attacked the medical profession for exposing women for their own gain to revolting examinations and to unnecessary and cruel operations.