CURE FOR CONSUMPTION

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 52, 11 December 1929, Page 4

CURE FOR CONSUMPTION

REV. E. WARD’S CLAIMCONVINCED OF EFFICACY. COST PRACTICALLY NIL. A claim that he has discovered a medicine which has cured scores of cases of tuberculosis has been made by the Rev. Edward Ward Vicar of the Church of Ascension, Point Chevalier, and recently of Kaitaia.

The medicine is a compound of certain mineral salts used extensively by one school of the medical profession on the Continent, plus a herb which grows freely in New Zealand, and which, while it has no specific action on the tuoercle bacillus, Mr. Ward claims has remarkable tonic properties. All the ingredients are easy to procure. The medicine is made up in the form of a powder, and, according to Mr. Ward, is harmless. “The medicine has effected so many cures during the past three years that there can be no question as to its efficaciousness in the majority of cases,” stated Mr. Ward recently. “So marked has been its success that I have no hesitation in making this announcement, If 1 were not thoroughly convinced I would maintain silence. “My medicine has been used with great success, and is still being used extensively, by a medical practitioner who is a member of the British Medical Association, and who practises amongst Maoris, many of whom suffer from consumption of the lungs.” Although he does not intend to make profits, either for himself or for the church, Mr. Ward does not intend to disclose the recipe, tor he states it would be useless to anyone unskilled in dispensing and he wishes to avoid having it commercialised. “I would make it available free of charge if I could,” Mr. Ward stated recently, “but I find I shall have to charge ninepence a week in order to meet out of pocket expenses.” Innumerable letters expressing gratitude have been received by Mr. Ward from people who have been cured. Some of them have been cured in Jess than six months. Mr. Ward says the medicine is generally efficacious in cases of consumption when there is sufficient sound lung in existence to maintain life. A few advanced cases have failed to respond to the treatment but these cases were described as hopeless.

Some 600 people die annually in New Zealand from consumption of the lungs, and Mr. Ward feels confident that his discovery will have the effect of saving at least 500 of that number.