A REMEDY FOR CANCER. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. (Daily Times' correspondent) London, August 11.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8086, 26 September 1894, Page 1

A REMEDY FOR CANCER. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. (Daily Times' correspondent) London, August 11.

Ifc would bo premature- to announce that a euro has boon discovered for cancor—that most fatal and rapidly-increas-ing of diseases —but at least a discovery has been mado which robs that dread complaint; of much of its terror. Dr J. Came Rosa, physician to Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, a doctor of rccognisod ability and experience, announces tiiat as tho result of three years' experiment ho has found a certain remedy to bavo tho offect, in cases of undoubted cancer, of causing the pain and effluvium to disappear. Ifc would bo more accurate to say that in tho cases whore this remedy was administered the pain ceased and tho fetor disappeared. Dr Ross carofuUy guards himself against raising oxpecta- j tions too high. Ho is fully prepared to admit that thoro may bo limits outside of which his remedy would bo ineffective, He thinks that tho disoaao may reach a htago or assume a shape — &uoh as that of an ulcerating mass exposed to tho air, upon which surgeons would refuse- to operate — hopelessly beyond tho reach of this or any other known romcdiul agency. But ho states deliberately, and adduces strong corroborative ovidenco, that in a number of cases the result was not merely cessation of pain and fetor, but also inimprovement in general health and apparent permanence, or at any rate long conlinuince — extending up to tho present date — of such improvement. In fact, as I gather from his deliberate and careful statement, ho has no reason as yet to doubt that a virtual cure may have been effected. Ho does not claim this, and time alone can show whether it bo the civBo or not. Should the discontinuance of pain and other unpleasant features of this dreadful disease prove permanent, as it seems to havo done up to the present time, fow will question that tho discovery should be deemed among tho most valuable in all medical history. Catlcor is fearfully on tho increuso in Now Zorland, as here, and hitherto, notwithstanding all tho pretences of quacks, ifc has shown itself absolutely incurable. The discoverer of a genuine remedy must be classed among tho greatest benefactors of hid race. Few diseases aro more profitable as a limitinggrouud for reckless and venal quacks, and many a hapless sufferor has been cruelly victimised by these harpies. The essence of their success consists in their pretended ability to cure what doctors pronounco incurable. If Dr Ross's method prove sound tho occupation of these swindlers will be gone. Nothing can bo more simple than his proscription which he frankly publishes, fie takes a pound of cinnamon sticks, and makes a strong decoction by boiling it slowly in a closed vessel in throo pints of water for eight hours, until the three pints of fluid have become reduced to one pint. This is to be poured oil without straining, andthe sediment is to boshakeu up each time a dose is taken, Tho patient is to drink lulf a pint of tho cinnamon decoction ovory 21 hours, divided into such doses as miy bo found mobt suitable. It seems to agree best when taken soon after food. That is all ! But how much it involves ! Dr Ross says ho should have preferred to delay publication of tho information given until ho had been able to say more than as yet ho can. But in spito of all his caro and reticence the groat secret that ho had discovered some remedial agency in connection w tli this terriblo scourge of tho human mco somehow oozed out, and ho says : " I almost daily receive lettors from complete strangers in different parts of Kngland imploring mo to help some despairing sufferer. Such lettors are so distressing, and they placo me in a position so intolerable in every respect, that I feel compelled to publish tho results of my experiments as far as they go, though the work itsolf is not w complete as 1 could havo wished." Dr Ross says that tho beat results are obtained when tho tumor is not exposed to tho air, yet even in one bad case of cancer of the tongue completely beneficial results followed the administration of tho cinnamon decoction. Dr Ross adduces live cases of cancer in as many totally different parts of the body, in each ot which all pain ceased within a few days after tho use of his remedy. It cannot bo too widely known. One is disposed to wonder, on reading of this simple vegetable drug, whether it may not havo boon the ono used m those c.vses of alleged euro by amateur horbal medicine If this wero proved it would show that for once tho ".simples " of tho horbalisl had proved more potent than all tho recognib«d ic.Mwrces of the official pharmacoptoia. But as yet thoro is no reason to believe this to bo bo, and Dr Ross is entitled to full credit fur his most beneficial di covery. Had this been known or thought of some years ago, would '♦ Frederick the Noblo " still havo boon on the Gormau throno ? If this wero posaiblo, what a ch-mgo a few sticks of cinnamon might havo mado in the destinies of Europe— of the world !