CANCER TREATMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19031, 30 May 1925, Page 13

CANCER TREATMENT.

PATIENT OBTAINS DAMAGES. SUIT AGAINST EX-POLICEMAN. A treatment which, according to medical evidence, caused great irritation to a cancerous growth and doomed the patient to a hideous death, was described in the St. Kilda Police Court,. Melbourne, recently, when William James Henderson obtained a verdict for .1126 5s against Ihomas White, a former sergeant of police, living at St. Kilda. ' The money was allegedly paid to the defendant by the plaintiff in consideration of at; undertaking that tho defendant would cure him of cancer. Henderson said that be had been stilfering from an epithelioma. A doctor had advised him to be operated upon. Defendant told him he was suffering from cancer and that he would cute him by a special treatment, known as helio 1 therapy sun ray curative treatment. Ibo money claimed had been paid for this treatment. Dr. Alfred John Tnnca, pathologist at the Alfred Hospital, said that the growth was now highly malignant and inoperable, and its condition had been complicated by the treatment. If that treatment was administered with a view to curing cMieer, it, was the cruellest and most diabolical form of homicide that he had heard of. In a few months Henderson would be doomed to a. hideous death. White said that after being declared incurable he had cured himself of the same disease by the same method. He had not guaranteed to cure Henderson, but to treat him. Henderson did not appear to carry out the instructions given him. ________________