A CURE FOR CANCER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2258, 10 June 1897, Page 11

A CURE FOR CANCER.

A correspondent aekfl us to publish the following alleged cure for cancer, with a request that any of our readers who know anything about it may write to us :—: — The rumour that a Russian physician 'had I discovered a cure for cancer has taken a definite form, and it is now stated that the remedy is found in the Chelidoniam majus, which is known as greater coladine, or swallowworfc. It possesses a milky, saffron-coloured juice, which is used by peasants for the destruction of warts. The first time that Or Denisenko drew attention to this cure he merely asserted that it could be employed with satisfactory results against the external growths of cancer, just as the peasants used it against warts, and for removing specks on the cornea. A new communication of his has just appeared, in which he further main' tains that it can be taken internally with excellent effects. For this purpose, however, ib must be specially prepared, as the juice in its natural state containn two potent poisons. Dr Denisenko describes seven caseß of cancer which he haa treated by means of swallow-wort juice. Four of these were external cancerous growths upon which a surgical operation was, for various reasons, out of the question?" The photographs of the results which tho physician hag published, together with the article, show the effects of the Chelidoniam msjus, which finally removed every trace of the cancer. The three other instances were of cancer in tha stomach.

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