A CANCER "SPECIALIST" & HIS METHODS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 April 1907, Page 1

A CANCER "SPECIALIST" & HIS METHODS.

i ____ j A WARNING FROM CHRIST- ! CHURCH. | The Christchurch "Press'.*, which published some weeks ago the state- ' ment of a woman who suffered from can- | cer, and who had been treated by a so-called specialist practising in. ChristI church, now prints a long letter from a | working Carpenter, in which he details ] his experience of this man's treatment. '. He relates that some four years ago he was troubled with a sore swelling on his lip, and was advised by a doctor to go to the hospital. "Just at this time," he continues, "this man, who calls himself a cancer specialist, came to Christchurch, and I was strongly advised to 'go and see him. After some consideration I went. I was ushered into the presence of a very pious, soft-spoken individual, who asked,' in a soft voice, 1 what he could do for me. He examined I my face, and I asked him if he could (cure it. He said : 'Yes, I can euro it.' I j said : 'The next question is as to your charges. lam only a working man, ! with a large family, and cannot'pay a j large sum. He said : 'My charge for , treatment like you require is rather high, but as I am only startme here I will make it very moderate. My usual charge is £20, but I will make yours 6gs.' I said r 'Very well, doctor, If you cure me I shall feel deeply thankful to you.' He said : 'Do not thank me, It is God you will have to thank.' I said : 'The next question is, How long do you think I will have to be absent from work ?' Ho said : 'I do not think you will be a day from work.' Little did I think that this man's treatment was to be tho cause of my losing months and, perhaps, years of work, also the loss of blood in large quantities." . The writer went to the specialist for treatment, and thus describes what took placer "At about 3 p.m. he commenced to paint my face with a sort cf liquid, and continued to do so at short intervals till 9 p.m., when I was told I could go home, and bo back next day at II a.m. How I get homo that n'ght will always remain a mysteryto mo. The whole of that night I believe I was delirious. Next morning, from the top of my lip down to my throat was one mass of sores, dry, and burned blark. I managed to get back at 11 a.m. He then took some sharp instrument and made two openings in the sore and put in some sort of a crystal substance, and I was allowejl to go home, This, added to the pain I was already suffering,' made it almost unbearable. However, I managed to get home again, and went to bed, and was there for three days, when this burned flesh and skin dropped off. I then went as soon as I was able to see this man who was treating me, and it was pronounced to bo a beautiful case. I got some powders to take and some lotion to bathe the sore with, and at the end of three weeks I was able to go back to work ig^in. (Note. — I was to lose no time). The writer then describes how, at the end of about eight or nine months his lips began to swell again, and there was unmistakable signs of the disease comins; back. Thej specialist, whom he visited again, wanted another three guineas to treat the case. .The patient remarked : "Surely you do not want all that, considering you guaranteed . (tor cure me?" He said: "I did cure you.'' "How is it, then," asked the sufferer, "that the sore has come back in the same place!" Ho said: "If you had bronchitis and you went to the doctor, he would cure you, but after a time vou would get bronchitis again." This did not satisfy the patient, but in the end he paid the three guineas. "This second time the treatment^" he says, "was something similar to. .the first, only the burning did not 'destroy the skin to such an extent : : but it was oftener than,, the first, and- on --this occasion I was home for three weeks. When I was at Waikouaiti last Christmas 12 months a man's body was brought down there for burial. I was told it • was a man who went to Christchurch to eet treated by a specialist for cancer in the throat. The aspecialist told me that he could retire at any time : that h-e has plenty to live on. If so, I wonder how many- have paid the penalty to fill that man's coffers ! I have been operated on three times by one df the ablest doctors in Christchurch, but the evil had been too deeply embedded for surgical aid to reach it. lam at present a patient in the Christchurch hos- ' pital, where I should have come at' first." < The doctor who treated the man after the specialist had done with -him informed a "Press" representative that he originally had ordinary epithelioma, of the lip, a common form of cancer, which, in its initial stages, could have been operated on with perfect success." The outbreak, however, seemed to have been aggravated by acids, the result being that the glans under the jaws were affected, and the mischief spread beyond remedy ; and when the case came to him it was 1 sjmply a question of ameliorating the trouble. Sever.^ operations were performed, but the trouble recurred, and the patient finally went to the hospital."

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