CURE OF CANCER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 7

CURE OF CANCER

DR GLOVER’S CLAIMS. CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, June 17. ' Addressing the Medical Association at Butte, Dr Glover said: “From every typa of cancer I have been able to isolate m pure culture a specific organism which, when inoculated into healthy animals, produces this disease. Afterwards I have recovered the organism again in pure culture from these animals. I have also> been able to render immune healthy animals against the cancer organism. It may bo described as a gramositive bacillus. Jt forms a small coccuslike spore, whichpasses through the finest Berkfelt filter. The serum preparation is similar to that used for the diphtheria antitoxin. My researches show- that cancer ‘is not horedi tary.”—Sydney Sun Cable. FAILURE UNDER TEST. TREATMENT NOT TRUSTWORTHY.’’ MELBOURNE, June 18. : Dr Cumpston, Commonwealth Director of Health, has announced that investigations in America have revealed that Dr Glover’s -cancer treatment is not trustworthy. Every medical scientist is reluctant claim victory over cancer, the mortality from which has reached such large proportions throughout the world. In Great Britain in 1921 the proportion of death!# per hundred was 15,3. The most recent claim of apparent victory over cancer wan at the Montcfiore Hospital in America. A woman patient entered the hospital ''twjai years ago weighing 561 b. She was discharged at normal weight. The case was described as one of the rarest in medical history, although it did not prove that other such cases could he cured. Dl" Ernest Boast, the directing physician, said: “At the best this is a brilliant ex*: periment, giving great promise. Although the patient was in the advanced stages when she entered the disease has now been entirely driven out. Thi« was accomplished by the alternate application of X-rays and radium. The X-rays were developed in a 200,000 volt machine. The cancerous growths were gradually dissolved. The patient regained the use ot her limbs, and is otherwise recovering;'?