CURE OF CANCER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 7

CURE OF CANCER

DR GLOVER’S DISCOVERY, AUSTRALIAN DOCTORS SCEPTICAL. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 12. Medical circles are not impressed with Dr Glover’s reported discovery that cancer is due to a microbe. They declare that the history of cancer, so far as is known, is inconsistent with Dr Glover’s claim. None of the previous claims that it was caused by different parasites had stood the tests. The claim is regarded as a big one, and positive proof is required before it can be accepted. At the same time, the doctors express the hope that the cause of the disease and a remedy have been discovered. If so, research in tho future will have to be made in an entirely new direction. ANOTHER REPORTED CURE. CHEMICAL FORMULA DEVELOPED. NEW YORK. June 11. Tho announcement is made of a newchemical formula which has cured 40 per cent, out of 400 cases of cancer. The statement was made by Dr Everett Field, of the Radium Institute, New York, before the Association for the Study of the Cure of Cancer. The formula is based on the theory that cancer is a germ disease. This, formula was developed because X-ray, radium, and other previously known treatments were found to be inadequate. —A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received June 12, at 7.30 p.m.) The now preparation is known as the “Kech serum.” Dt Field stated that Jve was not heralding an absolute cancer cure. It had been weed only in clinical cases, hut lie regarded it with high' hopes. He said that the Glover serum should also bq watched carefully.—A. and N.Z. Cable.