WONDERFUL CURES BY RADIUM.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 9

WONDERFUL CURES BY RADIUM.

The Radium Institute, which owes its origin to the initiative of King Edward, and was made possible by the munificence of Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel, has 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 de number of the assistants and de nursing staff so that it will be possible now to obtain treatment at do institute until eleven o’clock at night. Previously the hours were much de same as at most hospitals. It is too early to speak positively of the results of all the cures attempted ■ —many were hopeless from the begin-ning—-but a vast amount of suffering and disfigurement has been relieved since the institute was opened on August 14d last.

Ono elderly woman, who was suffering from rodent ulcer in the region of tho eye, has cause to bless the Radium Institute. If she had taken the advice given at a metropolitan hospital sho would have had do eye removed. As a last hope she placed herself in do hands of the radium experts of Langham place, and she is now walking about with a sound skin and a sound eye. An American who specially crossed the Atlantic for the cure of rodent ulcer on the ide of his nose, which would have spread to his throat eventually, is now on his way home, a sound man and rejoicing. Cases 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 paying patient and the patient without a shilling in 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 halfday excursion ticket to London arrangements are made to this end.