WONDERFUL CURES BY RADIUM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15056, 27 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

WONDERFUL CURES BY RADIUM.

The Radium Institute, which owes it origin to the initiative of King Edward* and was made possible "by the munificence of Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest- Cassel, lias attracted in its short career so large a number of sufferers that a step has been taken which is probably without parallel in the history of hospitals. It has been decided to increase the number of the assistants and the nursing staff 60 that it will be possible now to "obtain treatment at the institute until eleven o'clock at night. Previously the hours were much the same as at most hospitals. lb is too early to speak positively of the results of all the cures attempted—many were hopeless from the beginning—but a vast amount of suffering and disfigurement has been relieved since the institute was opened on August 14- last. , ' One elderly woman, who was suffering from rodent ulcer in the region of the eye, has cause to bless the Radium Institute. If she had taken the advice given at a metropolitan hospital she would have had the eye removed. As a last hope she placed herself in. the hands of the radium experts of Langham Place, and she is nowwalking about with a sound skin and a sound eye. An American,who specially crossed the Atlantic for the cure" of rodent ulcer on the side of his nose, which would have spread to his throat eventually, is now on his way home, a sound man and rejoicing. Oases worse than these could be multiplied manyfold. Poor patients who have received treatment at the institute speak in the highest praise of the officials. Exactly similar treatment is accorded to the wealthy paving patient and the patient without a shilling m the world. Appointments are not made to suit the staff, but the convenience of the patients themselves, and if a country patient can save money by taking a half-day excursion ticket to London arrangements are made to this end